Cao Xueqin kite art of this book table of contents

Preface

Foreword

Chapter One: The Origin of Cao's Kites

I. The Southern Harrier and the Northern Kite Examination and the Collected Manuscripts of the Abolition of Arts and Cultivation

II. The Kite Diagrams and Songs Reproduced in 1943

Three: Cao Xueqin's Kite Songs and The Language of the People Here

Chapter Three: Classification and Characteristics of Cao's Kites

A Brief Introduction to 43 Types of Kite Stabilizers

A Brief Introduction to the Fourteen Kite Tying Techniques Recovered at Present

Three: The Characteristics of Cao's Kites (Tying and Tying Techniques of Painting and Launching)

Chapter 4: The Craftsmanship of Kites

I. The Making of Fat Swallow

II. The Making of Soft-Winged Butterflies

III. Hard-Winged Butterflies (Radish and Cabbage)

IV. The Making of Mushroom Umbrella (Harmony and Harmony of Two Saints)

V. The Making of Sieve Bottom (Pleasant Spider)

VI. The Making of Dehairing Technique

An Illustration of the Cao's Kites

Appendix

I. Part of the original text of "Southern Harrier and Northern Kite Kao Gong Zhi"

II. The inheritance and development of Cao's kites

Afterword