Why do people cut the string after flying kites in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, with many interesting folk activities.

In its days, people will pay homage to their ancestral graves with infinite memories and pursue the future cautiously. This is also the embodiment of filial piety culture in China culture. The so-called "things for the dead are like things for the living."

I will also take a walk in the suburbs and feel the grass growing and warblers flying in February. Some places have the habit of flying kites in Qingming. Kites were also called paper kites and wind kites in ancient times. According to legend, it was made by ancient craftsman Lu Ban. At first, kites were invented as a tool for transmitting information and measuring, and then gradually became a game object. There is something special about flying kites in Tomb-Sweeping Day. When the kite flies high, they will cut the string in their hands, let the kite go with the wind, and don't allow children to pick up the flying kite. This will be considered unlucky.

Lang Renbao said in the Seventh Revision that the wind in spring is from bottom to top, so kites such as paper kites can fly; The summer wind passes through the air, and you can hear the wind in the treetops; Autumn wind from top to bottom, so leaves fall; The winter wind flies close to the earth, so the earth roars and produces cold.

Different seasons, spring is undoubtedly the most suitable season for flying kites. However, flying kites in Qingming is not just for entertainment. Compared with other folk festivals, Tomb-Sweeping Day is relatively serious, which is related to missing, offering sacrifices and praying.

In ancient times, on this day in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people would write down the names of all the diseases they could think of on their paper kites, then go to the open space in the suburbs, throw away the paper kites, cut the thread when they went against the wind, and watch them fly away. People will feel that those terrible diseases and misfortunes have been taken far away by the kite and can no longer harass themselves.

In fact, Tomb-Sweeping Day's flying kite means bad luck, which is a prayer for people's health and disease-free. Anyone who watches a kite full of diseases fly farther and farther will feel heartfelt happiness.