What is the symbolic meaning of kites?

Kites symbolize children's innocence, beauty and freedom. Kites can express people's wishes for happiness, longevity and celebration through patterns and images of people, animals, flowers, birds and utensils.

When I was a child, when I came back from school at night, I always asked my friends to chase kites. Kite, a traditional entertainment game in China, is full of traditional cultural meaning and brings unforgettable joy and deep memory to innocent people.

Spring is the best time to fly kites. Every spring, there are all kinds of kites floating in the sky. They are fluttering, flying towards the blue sky and white clouds and the future. In spring, the grass grows and the warbler flies. This is a beautiful dialogue between man and nature.

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".

The skeleton of a kite is generally made of bamboo, and the processes of binding the skeleton are: selecting bamboo, breaking bamboo, cutting bamboo strips, trimming bamboo strips, bending bamboo strips, binding bamboo strips and so on. Previous artists summed up rich kite-tying experience, and some even turned into songs. For example, the formula of binding fat sand swallow with hard wings is: the latest method of fat swallow is four or four, with one head, one abdomen and one tail root.