Kite making course

1. Prepare a thin and light paper with good toughness, 50 cm long and 30 cm wide. The paper used to make traditional kites generally includes cotton, rice paper, leather paper and adhesive tape. Prepare two pieces of wood, one is 30 cm long and the other is 50 cm long. Fold them into a cross and stick them with tape.

2. The top of the cross is15cm high and the bottom is 35cm high. Stick the prepared paper on the cross with a glue gun, cut off the excess parts, and then prepare two nylon ropes.

3. Tie both ends of a rope to both ends of a short piece of wood, and then tie one end of a slightly longer nylon rope to the center of this nylon rope. When you are ready to fly, connect a light string to the end of the nylon rope, so that the kite will fly higher and higher.

Kite introduction:

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 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.