What can I draw on the kite?

Kite patterns include figures, animals, flowers and birds, utensils and so on.

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 kite materials in Mo Zhai. It was not until Cai Lun improved papermaking in the Eastern Han Dynasty that people began to make kites out of paper, which was called "paper kites".

In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, kites began to be a tool for transmitting information. Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, due to the development of the paper industry, people began to use paper to paste kites. Flying kites became a popular outdoor activity in the Song Dynasty.

Kite species

1, soft-winged kite

Soft-winged kite is a common bird kite. Its lifting part is a main wing strip, and the lower cloth of the wing is soft without the attachment of the main wing strip. Most of the main frames are embossed. Most of them are birds or insects, and eagles, butterflies, bees, swallows, cranes, phoenixes, dragonflies, cicadas and mantises all belong to this kind of kites.

2. Hard-winged kites

Sand kite, a common winged task, belongs to this category. It is characterized in that the lifting piece is made of two horizontal bamboo strips, the two sides are high and the middle is concave, forming a ventilation channel. The ends of the wings are tilted backward, so that the wind escapes from the ends of the two wings, which looks like an ingot horizontally. For example, rice kites, flower baskets, mandarin ducks, magpies, parrots and so on, which are popular in Beijing, have fixed forms of hard wings, while the shapes and skeleton structures beyond the scope of hard wings vary with different contents and themes.