The original "Watching the Tide":
The spring tide of Qiantang River has been called the wonder of the world since ancient times.
Zhenhai Ancient Pagoda, Zhongshan Pavilion and Tide Observatory stand by the river. In the distance, several hills are looming in the clouds. Although the tide hasn't come yet, the seawall levee is already crowded with people. Everyone looked east with their heads held high, waiting and expecting.
At about one o'clock in the afternoon, there was a rumble in the distance, like a muffled thunder rolling. Suddenly, people are buzzing and we are told that the tide is coming! We stood on tiptoe and looked eastward, but the river remained calm and unchanged. After a while, the noise became louder and louder. I saw a white line at the junction of water and sky in the east, and the crowd was boiling again.
The white line moves quickly towards us, gradually elongating and thickening, and crosses the river. Approached, I saw white waves rolling, forming a white wall six or seven meters high. The tide is getting closer and closer, like thousands of white horses going hand in hand, galloping mightily; The sound is like a landslide, as if the earth were shaken by an earthquake.
In an instant, the tide rushed to the west, but the aftermath was still rolling all over the sky, and the wind was still whistling on the river. It was a long time before the Qiantang River calmed down. Looking under the embankment, the river has risen by two zhangs.
Extended data
In Watching the Tide, the author not only directly describes the situation and momentum of the surging tide by means of metaphor, description and contrast, but also indirectly shows the strangeness of the tide from the number of people watching the tide and the high enthusiasm. In this way, direct description and indirect comparison vividly show the wonders of Qiantang autumn tide to readers. ?
The poems of Su Shi, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, are also called tide watching.
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