Nature's Way and Human Culture

Meteorology Primer for Middle School Students by Zhu Kezhen China's Founding Father of Modern Meteorology气象学大师、浙大老校长竺可桢先生写给中学生的气象学科普！Heaven's Dao and Human Culture: Zhu Kezhen Explores Meteorology and History for Young Readers is a collection of popular science essays by pioneering meteorologist Zhu Kezhen. Drawing from historical classics like Spring and Autumn Annals and Records of the Grand Historian this work applies meteorological research to reconstruct climatic conditions during pivotal ancient events revealing how climate shifts shaped China's historical trajectory. The anthology features both accessible classics-including Nature's Language a perennial fixture in middle school textbooks-and seminal works like A Preliminary Study of Climatic Fluctuations in China over the Past 5000 Years which established foundational methodologies for historical climatology.《天道与人文：竺可桢给孩子讲气象与历史》是竺可桢先生关于气象学与中国历史变迁关系的科普小品文集。在本书中，竺可桢先生翻阅多部历史典籍，结合气象学的科学研究，对古代重要事件发生时的气候情况作出判断，并据此揭开气候变化与历史的关系。在本书中，不仅有《大自然的语言》这样多次入选中学语文课本、大家耳熟能详的科普小品，更有《中国近五千年来气候变迁的初步研究》这样为后世历史研究提供重要思路的传世名作。