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.
In chronological order, the full text describes the spectacular spring tide of Qiantang River in the order of "before tide", "during tide" and "after tide".
Extended data:
Watching the Tide is a modern essay by Zhao Zongcheng and Zhu Mingyuan. This paper describes the scenes of Qiantang River before, during and after high tide in chronological order.
Before the high tide, the sea was calm and the shore was crowded with people.
When the tide comes (moves), people buzz and the mountains fall;
After the tide came, the (static) aftermath still existed and the bagpipes roared.
Watching the Tide introduces the tide of Qiantang River, which has been called "the wonder of the world" since ancient times, and expresses the author's thoughts and feelings of loving nature and the great rivers and mountains of the motherland.