How many years have kites been in China?

How long has the kite been in China? The answer is more than 2000 years.

Kites were invented by working people in ancient China in 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 Sui and Tang Dynasties, due to the development of paper industry, people began to use paper to paste kites. Flying kites became a popular outdoor activity in the Song Dynasty.

Mozi (Mo Zhai) passed on his kite-making career to his student Lu Ban (also known as the bus class). In Moruz Wen pian, it is recorded that Lu Ban made a kite out of bamboo according to Mo Zhai's ideal and design. Lu Ban split the bamboo, cut it into smooth slices, roasted it with fire, made it look like a magpie, and flew in the air for three days.

The book says, "The public transport class makes wooden kites to see Song Cheng." There are three legends about the origin of kites, namely hats, leaves and sails. Legend has it that the first kite was made by "Luban" and called "wooden kite". The Old Story of Zhu Gong records that Lu Ban "tasted it as a wooden kite and took it to see Song Cheng".

According to "Lu Chunqiu Love Class", "the public transport class is high and wants to attack the Song Dynasty. Mozi heard that he bound his feet day and night from Shandong. As for the ten days and ten nights, he saw King Jing saying,' I am a gentleman in the North, and I believed him when I heard that the King would attack the Song Dynasty.' "This shows that Lu Ban built a" high ladder "instead of a wooden kite.

In BC 190, Chu and Han contended, and Han and Han Xin attacked Weiyang Palace to measure the distance under the tunnel with kites. And the battle under the note.

Xiang Yu's army was besieged by Liu Bang's army. Han Xin sent people to make kites out of cowhide and put bamboo flutes on them, and the wind rang (it is said that Zhang played the flute). The Han army played flute and sang Chu songs, which dispersed the morale of the Chu army. This is the story of the idiom "Embattled".