What do the ancients mean by flying kites in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

The ancients flew kites in Tomb-Sweeping Day, hoping that their diseases and polluted air would be taken away by kites.

In ancient times, flying kites in Tomb-Sweeping Day was a folk custom, and its main moral was "unlucky". People write their names on kites, then put them in the sky, and then deliberately cut the string to let the kites fly away, thinking that this can put down "bad luck" and make good luck, so as to achieve the purpose of "eliminating disasters and solving problems".

Because it is unlucky to fly a kite, no matter how delicate and beautiful the kite is, cut the string and let it fly away.

Brief introduction of flying kites in Tomb-Sweeping Day:

Flying kites is the most popular activity in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Kite is an aircraft that sticks paper or silk with bamboo strips and other skeletons, pulls a long line on it, and drops it into the sky under the action of wind. It belongs to an aircraft that only uses aerodynamic force. During their stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people not only wore it during the day, but also at night.

At night, a string of colored lanterns is hung under the kite or on the wind-stabilizing stay, like twinkling stars, which is called "magic lamp". Someone used to put kites in the blue sky, then cut the strings and let the breeze send them to the ends of the earth. It is said that this can eliminate diseases and disasters and bring good luck to yourself.