What month is the 2020 Kite Festival When is the Weifang International Kite Festival in 2020

What month is the 2020 Kite Festival When is the 2020 Weifang International Kite Festival

The 2020 Weifang International Kite Festival is April 20-25, 2020.

2020 U.S. International Kite Festival specific time is indeterminate, by the National Kite Association with the state kite associations to take turns to organize, generally with the host site of the appropriate time of the year to determine the time.

The 2020 Japan-Hamamatsu Kite Festival is on May 26, 2020

Kite festivals originated in China during the Tang Dynasty, and many cities in China still have kite festivals, as do almost all other Southeast Asian countries. But after thousands of years of change, the kite festival in Southeast Asian countries is no longer in the same season. Together, the festivals in these countries last for almost the whole year. Chinese kite festivals are mainly located in Weifang, Wuhan and Yangjiang. There are also kite festivals in overseas countries such as the United States and Japan.

Domestic kite festival

Weifang International Kite Festival

Weifang International Kite Festival is an annual international kite event, generally scheduled for April 20-25 every year in the kite city of Weifang. 1984 held the first Weifang Kite Festival, attracting a large number of Chinese and foreign kite experts and enthusiasts and tourists to come to watch, competition and excursions. Travelers to arrive in Weifang before April 20 is appropriate.

Weifang International Kite Festival is not only a festival for exchanging kite skills, but also a good opportunity to learn about kite folk culture. The whole Weifang Kite Festival is accompanied by colorful folk traditional art activities. Traditional folk lanterns are exhibited in a thousand different shapes and sizes under the night curtain, and the folk fireworks, with their excellent lighting skills, show historical drama and story scenes, which are exciting and marvelous.

In the kite concert, the wonderful singing of the famous stars of the art world mesmerized people. Weifang kites have a long history, exquisite work, beautiful shape, smooth flying, easy to take off. Yangjiabu Village, located 15 kilometers northeast of downtown, is the hometown of kites. Yangjiabu kites are famous for their exquisite workmanship, fine drawing and high and stable take-off, which are divided into six series and more than sixty varieties, including string, plate, three-dimensional, soft wing, hard wing and free-style. Yangjiabu woodblock prints, on the other hand, are famous both at home and abroad, alongside Yang Liuqing in Tianjin and Taohuayu in Suzhou. Here you can see the kite and woodblock print workshops in the courtyard style, a typical folk building of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and see the whole process of the artists' skills in carving the paintings and tying the kites. The masterpieces of Chinese and foreign kites of the previous kite festivals are displayed in Weifang Kite Museum - the largest professional museum in the world so far - with a wide range of subjects, numerous patterns, exquisite tying skills and different shapes, which make people dazzled, dazzled and unforgettable.

Overseas kite festival

United States International Kite Festival

The United States International Kite Festival is organized by the National Kite Association with the state kite associations in turn, once a year, the specific time is not fixed, generally to the appropriate time to determine the time of the season to be held.

Belgium - Knockheist Kite Festival

Belgium - Knockheist Kite Festival was founded in 1995 Knockheist International Kite Festival, the first weekend in August every year in Knockheist seaside beach, rain or shine. More than 60 kite teams from the UK, France, Holland, Germany and New Zealand visit the scenic seaside town to fly their handmade kites.

Thailand - Bangkok Kite Festival

Every March, Bangkok's Wangjatian Square and Pramani Place are the traditional centers for kite flying. Kite enthusiasts from 16 countries and regions decorate the spring sky with a wide variety of kites. The kites are both flat and three-dimensional, and come in all shapes and sizes. The most spectacular scene is the 12 giant octopus flying together, these octopus kites are from France, Italy, the United States and New Zealand four countries. Some of them cost as much as 8 thousand dollars to make.

Japan - Hamamatsu Kite Festival

Every year on May 26th, a kite festival is held in Hamamatsu, Japan. Thousands of kite enthusiasts come to Hamamatsu from all over the world to participate in kite competitions.