What is the knowledge about kites and the custom of flying kites?

Kite was invented by China people, also known as organ, paper kite, kite and paper kite. Flying a kite is one of the traditional folk games and a holiday custom in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Kites were invented by working people in ancient China during the Spring and Autumn Period of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, which has been more than 2,000 years since. 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 the materials of kites in Mo Zhai, and even evolved into today's multi-line kites. It is said that Mozi is a wooden kite, which took three years to form and was lost in one day.

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. Zhou Mi, a poet of the Song Dynasty, wrote in Old Wulin: "During the Qingming Festival, people fly kites in the suburbs and return at dusk." "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.