How to make a windmill by hand

Here’s how to make a handmade windmill:

Material preparation: scissors, colored paper, cotton swabs and solid glue.

1. Take a piece of 15 cm square paper and fold it crosswise along the diagonal line, fold it diagonally twice, and cut it along the four creases with scissors. Do not cut the middle part.

2. Unfold the origami paper, stick glue in the middle, apply solid glue to the center of the cut paper, and glue the cut corners to the middle one by one.

3. Roll the 7.5x15cm Qishu origami diagonally into a paper stick and fix it. Cut the cotton swab to the appropriate length.

4. Pass the cotton swab through the two holes and fix the windmill head and the stick together. Just pass the paper stick through the back, and a super fun windmill is completed.

Origin of windmill:

The windmill is also known as the auspicious wheel, the Bagua wind wheel, and the four-season peace talisman. This thing is inconspicuous, but when the Spring Festival comes, you can see it all over the streets. It is made of sorghum stalks, clay flaps and colored paper. Its small wheel rotates to pray for good wind and rain, its small drum sound symbolizes the sound of harmony, and its red, yellow and green colored strips are symbols of sunshine, earth and blue sky.

It was most popular in the capital during the Ming and Qing Dynasties and was a symbol of old Beijing. People called it an auspicious wheel. Later, people used to call it Windmill Guanhong. Windmills originated in the Zhou Dynasty. Among the people, windmills represent joy and auspiciousness. They were invented by Jiang Ziya to suppress demons and demons. They were originally called Bagua Wind Wheels.

The diameter is 1chi 1inch 5, the circumference is 365 minutes, and 1 is divided into one day, that is, 365 days. There are four talismans, representing the four seasons. 12 bars represent 12 months, and 24 heads represent the 24 solar terms. This wind wheel is used to ward off evil spirits.