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Artistic modeling of Beijing kite

There are seven artistic shapes of Beijing kites:

Shayan, also known as Jingyan, was born in Beijing. Divided into fat, thin sand swallow and young swallow.

Hard wing-also known as the word "rice", named after the skeleton structure resembles the word "rice". Generally made into the Monkey King, Zhong Kui or flower baskets.

Soft wings-mostly three-dimensional copying. Such as dragonflies, phoenixes, eagles, butterflies, crabs and peacocks.

For Yan, one bamboo can hold two kites. Swallows, butterflies and pigeons are generally ready, and they are released and chased, just like life.

Beat-divided into soft beat and hard beat, much like a tablet. Make an octagonal, diamond or ladybug image. This kind of kite must have a long tail or long ears. Other kinds of kites don't need a tail.

Line centipede or dragon kite.

Tubular lanterns, bucket-shaped kites.