What holiday custom is tide watching?

Watching the tide is the custom of watching the tide festival. Tide-watching Festival is a folk festival. Popular in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Jiaxing and other places. Every year on August 18th of the lunar calendar, the Qiantang River in Zhejiang Province will have a spring tide. At high tide, the waves are rough and magnificent.

This festival has been around since the Southern Song Dynasty. Hangzhou people have been watching the tide since the eleventh, and the sixteenth and eighteenth cities have come out. From Miaozitou to Pagoda of Six Harmonies, buildings along the river are rented as spectators. Since the early Qing Dynasty, tidal observation has been moved to Haining, Jiaxing, due to the diversion of the river.

The origin of tide-watching festival.

Qianjiang Tide Watching began in Han and Wei Dynasties, flourished in Tang and Song Dynasties, and lasted for more than two thousand years. In the Southern Song Dynasty, it was scheduled to inspect the navy on the Qiantang River on August 18th of the lunar calendar every year, and then it became a habit to go down the river, taking this day as the tide-watching festival. Su Dongpo praised: The August 18th tide was spectacular. Kunpeng water hammer 3000 Li regiment 100 thousand people practice long drive. The red flag and green cover gradually disappear, and the black sand and white waves eat each other. There are two advantages to this trip when life is in trouble. "