The Origin of Flying Kites on Dragon Boat Festival

"Paper kite" is commonly known as kite.

The custom of the Dragon Boat Festival should be to eat zongzi and race dragon boats. Of course, this solar term, the wind is not very strong, you can still fly kites.

The best season for flying kites is early spring, February or Tomb-Sweeping Day. In Song Dynasty, Zhou Mi wrote in Old Wulin: "During Qingming Festival, people fly kites in the suburbs and return at dusk." "Kite" means kite. There are vivid kite-flying scenes in Zhang Zeduan's The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival in the Northern Song Dynasty and Su Hanchen's The Hundred Poems in the Song Dynasty. Legend has it that in BC 190, when Chu and Han were contending, Han and Han Xin attacked Weiyang Palace and used kites to measure the distance under the tunnel of Weiyang Palace. In the Battle of Gaixia, Xiang Yu's army was besieged by Liu Bang's army. Han Xin sent someone to make a kite out of cowhide, put on a bamboo flute, and the wind blew (another said that Zhang played the flute with a kite). The Han army played flute and sang Chu songs, which dispersed the morale of the Chu army. This is the story of the idiom "Embattled".

Gao Ding's Village Residence in Qing Dynasty: The grass grows in February, and the willow is drunk with spring smoke. The children came back from school early, so they were busy flying kites in the east wind.

At present, many countries in the world have "Kite Festival". Among them, the famous one is China Langfang International Kite Festival. In 2020. Langfang International Kite Festival is from April 20th to 25th.