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How to make your own kite

The kite practice is as follows:

Preparation materials: newspaper, bamboo strips, red thread, kite string.

1, first take a piece of newspaper, you can also use fabric, fold it as shown in the picture below.

2, then cut off the newspaper excess, open, then cut out a square newspaper, as shown in the picture below.

3, then prepare two thin bamboo strips, preferably fresh bamboo, because the loose spring for the elasticity of good, conducive to bending.

4, then as shown in the figure below, the bamboo strips fixed to the square newspaper, one of the bamboo strips to be bent. It is easier to use tape to fix it.

5, take another piece of newspaper, take the longest edge and cut out six strips of paper.

6. Fix the six paper strips on top of the kite as shown in the picture below.

7, and then cut out two lines disturbing noisy, as shown in the figure below, fixed to the kite, with tape, so that a kite is ready.

The kite is a traditional Chinese craft, invented by the ancient working people in the Spring and Autumn period of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty in China, according to legend, Mo Zhai made wooden birds from wood, developed for three years and became the earliest human origin of the kite. Later, Lu Ban used bamboo to improve the material of Mo Zhai's kite, and it was not until the Eastern Han Dynasty when Cai Lun improved the papermaking technique that kites started to be made of paper, called "paper warbler". During the North and South Dynasties, kites began to become a tool for transmitting messages. From the Sui and Tang dynasties onwards, due to the development of the paper-making industry, folk began to use paper to frame kites. By the time of Song Dynasty, kite flying became a favorite outdoor activity.