COLD WINTER EVENTS RECORDED IN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS OF THE TROPICAL AREA, CHINA

1. Introduction The LIA was widely revealed in historical documents (Chu, 1973; Lamb, 1977; Wang et al., 1998) glacial advance (Clapperton, 1990; Chen, 1987) tree rings (Kong et al., 1997) ice cores (Thompson et al., 1986; Yao et al., 1997) marine sediments (Keigwin, 1996) annually laminated lacustrine sediments (Zolitschka, 1996) in the world. But few historical documents and natural archives show the existence of the LIA in the tropical area except the ice cores in Southern Andes of P…