Types of kites

1. Soft-winged kites: Common bird kites.

Its lift piece is a main fin strip. The lower fabric of the fin is soft and has no main strip to rely on. Most of the main body frame is made in relief.

Most of its shapes are birds or insects.

Eagles, butterflies, bees, swallows, cranes, phoenixes, dragonflies, cicadas, mantises, etc. all belong to this type of kites.

2. Hard-winged kites: The common ingot-winged sand swallow kites fall into this category.

Its characteristic is that the lifting piece (fin) is made of two horizontal bamboo strips up and down into the shape of a wing. The edges on both sides are high and the middle is concave to form a ventilation channel.

The ends of the wings are tilted backward to allow wind to escape from the ends of the wings, making them look like ingots when viewed flat.

3. Dragon-shaped kites: Mainly dragon-headed centipede kites, which are also a major feature of Weifang kites.

4. Board kite: the legendary flat kite.

From the structure and shape point of view, its lifting piece is the main body, there is no protruding structure, and the four sides of the kite are supported by bamboo strips.

This type of kite is common, easy to build, has good flying performance, and is suitable for expressing a variety of themes. It is the favorite type of children.

5. Three-dimensional kite: generally adopts a folding structure skeleton, consisting of one or more barrels or barrels of other shapes, such as palace lanterns, vases, rockets, etc.

6. Sports kites: Sports kites are also called stunt kites, also known as double-line kites or double-line kites.

They are generally triangular, paraglider-shaped, or spectacle-shaped.

Sports kites are a newly emerging sport in our country. Different from traditional kites, sports kites are not only single-line, but also double-line and four-line. They can perform some actions in the air.

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The structure of the kite:

The shape of the kite mainly imitates natural creatures, such as birds, insects, animals and geometric solids.

In terms of patterns, they are mainly designed based on personal preferences, including promotional logos, animals, butterflies, birds, etc., and there are all kinds of them.

In addition to silk and paper, kite construction materials also include plastic materials.

Bone poles include bamboo strips, wood and glue sticks.

Someone designed a boneless kite. Its structure is to introduce air into a wind pit made of silk, so that the kite forms a gently floating air pillow, and then rides on the wind.

China, Malaysia, the Philippines and Japan also have a kind of large kite, which is released into the blue sky during the Kite Festival. The size of these kites ranges from ten to twenty feet.

The bone poles were made from large bamboo poles and were placed by more than a hundred people.