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How to make a kite?

The steps of flying a kite are as follows:

1 First of all, we choose plastic bags, straws and transparent tapes as the simple models and materials. Fold the flexible straw and insert another straw. Glue the seams with scotch tape. Make two "big sticks" with different lengths, cross the connected "big sticks" into a cross and stick them firmly with transparent tape.

2. Punch holes in the straw so that the thread can go in and make the kite look like a frame. This material is suitable for making kites in small areas, and small sticks are recommended for kites in large areas. Cut a plastic bag, take a plastic bag larger than the kite frame, put it on the frame, and stick both ends with transparent tape.

Take a thread and make a tail with the rest of the bag. Finally, draw naughty eyes and mouth on your kite. This simple kite is finished. Handmade kites are relatively simple. You can choose plastic bags, straws and transparent tape to make kites.

The meaning of kite is as follows:

1. With the development of paper industry, people began to use paper to paste kites. Flying kites became a popular outdoor activity in the Song Dynasty. Song people's meticulous "Old Wulin Events" wrote: "During the Qingming Festival, people fly kites in the suburbs and return at sunset." "Kite" means 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.

2. So when Tomb-Sweeping Day's ghost gate was briefly opened, I pinned my sympathy on a kite and gave it to my dead relatives and friends. Military needs have advanced by leaps and bounds. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, due to the emergence of the paper industry, kites were made of paper paste, which quickly spread to the people and became people's entertainment toys. The "signs" of the event include the word "hi" in the kite and touching the kite.

3. Kites and auspicious patterns related to this are: "beaming with joy", "double happiness at the door", "beaming with happiness" and "double happiness at the door". Festive patterns are also very interesting, such as butterflies, birds, flowers, baiji, longevity, happiness, and happiness, such as "a hundred birds fly at the phoenix". Happy marriage, harmony between husband and wife, Yuanyang kite, etc.