What are the characteristics of Tianjin kites?

Tianjin is the main producing area of kites exported from China. Tianjin kite has absorbed the characteristics of traditional Chinese painting, printmaking and Tianjin Yangliuqing New Year pictures in artistic style, with simple lines and bright colors. Exquisite and unique, the kite skeleton is made up of holes and tenons, and there is no thread binding. There are figures, flowers and birds, insects and fish, among which birds are the most colorful, including eagles, Xiaoyan, phoenixes, geese, owls and kingfishers. Kites in Tianjin are the most famous "Wiki Kites". Wei Yuantai, an old artist in Tianjin, has been engaged in kite making for three generations, and is well-known at home and abroad for his exquisite skills and unique style. Wei's kites are as big as a foot, but as small as a foot, especially some kites can be disassembled and folded. A kite of five or six feet can be packed in a box of about two feet. In the binding process, his style is "tenon through the heart, see the front and back flat", and the bamboo strips at the vertical and horizontal intersections of bamboo frames will never overlap. The color painting part is suitable in thickness, and the bright colors are thick and bright, which are still clearly visible at high altitude. There is a silk butterfly kite with 160 live eyes, which rises into the air and rotates with the wind. The color of butterfly wings is flickering. Tianjin Yangliuqing kite also has a long history, with more than 200 varieties, with birds and animals as the main image. In recent years, Cao Xueqin's "Atlas" contains exquisite gift kites such as winged swallow, fat swallow and young swallow, which have been newly copied, making Yangliuqing's kite varieties more abundant.

Tianjin flower basket kite