{"id":18630,"date":"2023-12-26T09:51:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T04:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18630"},"modified":"2025-04-05T12:06:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T06:36:55","slug":"qiantang-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/qiantang-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Qiantang River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Qiantang River<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0southeast Chinese River that originates on the borders of Anhui and Jiangxi provinces.<\/li>\n<li>It runs for 459 kilometers through Zhejiang, passing through the capital city &#8211; Hangzhou and Yanguan Town, Haining, Jiaxing City before\u00a0flowing into the East China Sea via Hangzhou Bay.<\/li>\n<li>The river is also the\u00a0southern terminal of the ancient Grand Canal that\u00a0links five major rivers in China from north to south, enabling traffic north to Beijing from Hangzhou via the Canal.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0encircled by a group of economically booming\u00a0cities, including Shanghai,\u00a0the leading industrial and commercial hub of the country,\u00a0and Ningbo, one of China&#8217;s leading port cities.<\/li>\n<li>The spectacular\u00a0Qiantang River Tidal Bore is known as\u00a0one of the largest tidal bores in the world.\u00a0The highest tidal bore can reach up to 9 meters (30 feet) high.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is a Tidal Bore?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A tidal bore\u00a0occurs along a coast where a river empties into an ocean or sea.<\/li>\n<li>A tidal bore\u00a0is a strong tide that\u00a0pushes up the river, against the current.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>A tidal bore\u00a0is a surge. A surge is a\u00a0sudden change in depth.<\/li>\n<li>When a channel suddenly gets deeper, it experiences a positive surge. When a channel suddenly gets shallower, it experiences a negative surge.\u00a0Tidal bores are positive surges.<\/li>\n<li>The height of the bore is\u00a0greater near the banks of a river than at midstream.<\/li>\n<li>Because of momentum,\u00a0some bores continue to move upstream for about one-half hour after high water.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Bores occur at spring tides and at several tides preceding and following spring tides, but\u00a0never at neap tides.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Tides?<\/h3>\n<p>Tides are very long-period waves that move through the ocean in response to the forces exerted by the moon and sun. Tides originate in the ocean and progress toward the coastlines where they appear as the regular rise and fall of the sea surface. When the highest part, or crest, of the wave reaches a particular location, high tide occurs; low tide corresponds to the lowest part of the wave, or its trough. The difference in height between the high tide and the low tide is called the tidal range.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.cgtn.com\/news\/2023-12-25\/Tree-shaped-patterns-appear-on-frozen-Qiantang-River-1pP44p5ZIFq\/p.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Tree-shaped patterns appear on frozen Qiantang River<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qiantang River is a southeast Chinese River that originates on the borders of Anhui and Jiangxi provinces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}