Qiantang Jiang and Yongding He of The Famous Rivers in China
2 min readQiantang Jiang
It is on the border mountains of Zhejiang，Anhui，Jiangxi and flows into Hanzhou Wan .It has a length of 500 km and an area of 48，849 square km.It is the largest river in Zhejiang.The section from Wenjiayan to Zhakou is called Zhi Jiang，and the section downstream from Zhakou is called Qiantang.
The famous Qiantang tide is a remarkable natural phenomenon which has exited the world because of its tremendous momentum and grand sight view.Watching the tidal waves of the Qiantang has been a significant event for over 2000 years since the Han and Wei Dynasties.August 18 every year by the lunar calendar witnesses a sea of people thronging towards the bank of Qiantang Jiang to watch the tidal waves of the Qiantang Jiang.On the first and 15th day of the lunar month，the tide is the most wonderful because the Sun，Moon and Earth are on the same line.Actually，there are total more than 20 tide watching days.During this period people celebrate the“Tide Watching Festival”.The major activities of the festival include an opening ceremony，in which people hold dinners and they sing and dance happily.Meanwhile，there is a temple fair at Temple of the God of the Sea.People get together to give performance including lion dance，dragon dance，folk song，Beijing Opera，folk leather-silhouette show as well as folk operas like the Yue Opera ，Ping Tan Songs ，and so on.
Yongding He
The Yongding River is the most famous river in the his-tory of Beijing.Thanks to the Yongding，Beijing was once considered“A Metropolis with a river running through it”.But now surveys list only three capital cities in the world with no river flowing through them，and Beijing is one of them.The Beijing Municipal Government is trying to take measures to recover the river.
A famous bridge in China:Lugou Bridge or”Marco Polo Bridge”as it’s more popularly known，is situated in the southeast of Beijing，about 15km outside the city center.First built over 800 years ago in the Jin Dynasty，the bridge is now the oldest in Beijing.Marco Polo made this magnificent structure famous when he wrote about it.
Two stone monuments stand at each side of the bridge，one details the repairs made on the site during the Qing dynasty and the other reads“Lugouxiaoyue”.
Literally translated，this means that the moon rises from LugouBridge.Chinese couples like to stand on the bridge at dusk and watch the sunset and the moon rise from this beautiful construction.There are 280 balusters of white marble on the sides of the bridge.On top of the balusters，finely carved small stone lions pose in various positions and expressions.The bridge is perhaps most famous though，for being the place when the Japanese invasion of China began in 1937.
