Watching the Tide is a text published by People's Education Publishing House in the first volume of the fourth grade Chinese. The authors are Zhao Zongcheng and Zhu Mingyuan, and the readers are loyal. .

For thousands of years, Qiantang River has attracted many tourists with its unique and extraordinary trend.

It describes the grand occasion of tide watching, the scenes before the tide comes, when the tide comes and after the tide head, the whole process of the tide rushing from far and near to the west, the dynamic change of the river tide from calm to roaring and back to calm, and the strangeness, grandeur and grandeur of the tide.

Text analysis

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.