What is the origin and history of kites?

Kites were invented by ancient working people in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period in China, and have been used for more than two thousand years. According to legend, Mo Zhai made wooden birds out of wood, which took three years to develop, and was the earliest origin of human kites. Later, Lu Ban used bamboo to improve kite materials in Mo Zhai. It was not until Cai Lun improved papermaking in the Eastern Han Dynasty that people began to make kites out of paper, which was called "paper kites".

In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, kites began to be a tool for transmitting information. Since Sui and Tang Dynasties, due to the development of paper industry, people began to use paper to paste kites. Flying kites became a popular outdoor activity in the Song Dynasty. In Song Dynasty, Zhou Mi wrote in Old Wulin: "During the Qingming Festival, people fly kites in the suburbs and return at dusk." Kite "refers to a kite. There are vivid kite-flying scenes in Zhang Zeduan's The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival in the Northern Song Dynasty and Su Hanchen's The Hundred Poems in the Song Dynasty.

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The shape of kites mainly imitates natural creatures, such as birds, insects, animals and geometric solids. In terms of patterns, they are mainly designed according to personal preferences, including publicity signs, animals, butterflies, birds and so on.

Besides silk and paper, kites are also made of plastic. Bone stems include bamboo poles, wooden sticks and glue sticks. Someone has designed a boneless kite, whose structure is to introduce air into a wind pit made of silk, so that the kite can form a lightly floating air pillow, and then ride the wind.

China, Malaysia, the Philippines and Japan also have a large kite, and the blue sky is put in every kite festival. These kites vary in size from ten feet to twenty feet. The bone pole is made of bamboo, which is put by more than 0/00 people.

Ordinary kites usually use bamboo as the skeleton and paper as the meat. Other composite materials include silk, nylon cloth, plastic film or bamboo strips, gauze paper and horse-drawn paper.

Paper and silk are commonly used materials for making traditional kites, and their bright colors can better reflect the charm of China kites. But paper is fragile and silk is expensive, and the products of modern science-nylon cloth and plastic film-have become new materials for making kites.