Qiantang River

Qiantang River
Qiantang River
	Qiantang River Bridge
Simplified Chinese	钱塘江
Traditional Chinese	錢塘江
Postal	Tsientang River
Literal meaning	River of King Qian's Dyke
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Qiántáng Jiāng
Wade–Giles	Ch'ien-t'ang Chiang
IPA	[tɕʰjɛ̌n.tʰǎŋ tɕjáŋ]
Wu
Romanization	Chi-dhon kaon

map of the Qiantang watershed basin, in Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangsu, and Jiangxi

The Qiantang River, formerly known as the Hangchow River^[1]^[2]^[3] or Tsientang River, is a river in East China. An important commercial artery, it runs for 459 kilometers (285 mi) through Zhejiang, passing through the provincial capital Hangzhou before flowing into the East China Sea via Hangzhou Bay south of Shanghai. Its original name, the "Zhe River" or "Zhe Jiang", is the origin of the name of Zhejiang province. The river is also known, along with Hangzhou Bay, for having what is called by locals as the "Silver Dragon", the world's largest tidal bore, a phenomenon where the leading edge of the incoming tide forms a wave (or waves) that can rise to a height of 9 meters (30 ft) and travels up the river or narrow bay at top speeds of 40 km/h (25 miles per hour) against the direction of the river or bay's current, and can be seen from miles away.^[4]^[5]^[6]

^ "Memoirs of Robert Dollar". Electric Scotland. Retrieved 2022-12-09. The extreme north of the city is at the termination of the Grand Canal and the extreme south is on the Tsien Tang River, sometimes called the Hangchow River, which is about one and a quarter miles wide at this point.
^ Goodchild, Thomas (1911). "Northeastern Chehkiang, China: Notes on Human Adaptation to Environment". Bulletin of the American Geographical Society. 43 (11): 801–826. doi:10.2307/200020. ISSN 0190-5929. JSTOR 200020. Dzien-dang, or Hangchow River, and is one of the commonest trees to be found there.
^ The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs. Brown, Son and Ferguson. 1843. In passing the Hangchow Gulf , great care must be taken to avoid the indraft of the Hangchow river
^ Inertia, The (10 October 2017). "This Year's Silver Dragon Tidal Bore Was Incredible". The Inertia. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
^ surfclaw. "Surfing in China, enter the Dragon | Surf-claw". Archived from the original on 2023-02-16. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
^ "Silver Dragon | Science and the Sea". www.scienceandthesea.org. Retrieved 2023-02-16.

[1] "Memoirs of Robert Dollar". Electric Scotland. Retrieved 2022-12-09. The extreme north of the city is at the termination of the Grand Canal and the extreme south is on the Tsien Tang River, sometimes called the Hangchow River, which is about one and a quarter miles wide at this point.

[2] Goodchild, Thomas (1911). "Northeastern Chehkiang, China: Notes on Human Adaptation to Environment". Bulletin of the American Geographical Society. 43 (11): 801–826. doi:10.2307/200020. ISSN 0190-5929. JSTOR 200020. Dzien-dang, or Hangchow River, and is one of the commonest trees to be found there.

[3] The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs. Brown, Son and Ferguson. 1843. In passing the Hangchow Gulf , great care must be taken to avoid the indraft of the Hangchow river

[4] Inertia, The (10 October 2017). "This Year's Silver Dragon Tidal Bore Was Incredible". The Inertia. Retrieved 2023-02-16.

[5] surfclaw. "Surfing in China, enter the Dragon | Surf-claw". Archived from the original on 2023-02-16. Retrieved 2023-02-16.

[6] "Silver Dragon | Science and the Sea". www.scienceandthesea.org. Retrieved 2023-02-16.

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