Characteristics of Kong Lingmin's Kites

Origin

The Cao's kite, with its origin in Cao Xueqin, belongs to the court kite. And the modern Cao's kites start from a man surnamed Jin.

Jin Fuzhong, formerly known as Jin Yutang (1889 - 1978), the yellow flag people, is the "court kite" Aixinjueluo Huimin's sixth generation. He once served in the imperial court as a "worship" position, in charge of the palace to tie the kite, depicting the palace fan and other tie-color affairs. Because of his excellent skills, he was y appreciated by Empress Dowager Cixi, so he was given the name "Jin Fuzhong".

Jin Fuzhong is Kong Xiangze's distant second uncle. When he was eleven or twelve years old, Mr. Jin often took him to fly kites and taught him how to make kites. Since the ancestor of Mr. Jin Fuzhong cannot be traced, it is believed that the first generation of modern "Cao's kites" is Mr. Jin Fuzhong, the second generation is Kong Xiangze, the third generation is Kong Lingmin, and the fourth generation is Kong Bingzhang. From the point of view of the Kong family is also considered to be a three-generation family, and Kong Lingmin has played an important role in carrying forward the next.

Features

The most important feature of Cao's kites is the organic combination of north and south kite techniques. This is also the reason why Cao Xueqin named the kite "Southern Harrier and Northern Kite". Kong Xiangze wrote in his article "The Origin of Zayan's Positive and Inverted Drawing and the Change of the Base Color Used" that Cao Xueqin's improvement of the kite included anthropomorphic method, artisanal drawing method, changing the soft-winged method into the hard-winged method and combining it with the Zayan's modeling structure, which led to the great innovation of the northern kites, and that "none of the kite makers in the capital city did not take the Zayan as the clan, and it has been in decline in the occupation of the market for more than two hundred years.

Cao Cao's kites were the most popular in the world.

The Cao's kites pay special attention to their interest. In terms of craftsmanship, it pays attention to the four arts of tying, gluing, painting and releasing. In the paste technology, its three stops and three leaks of the law in line with the principle of mechanics, and the structure of the skeleton are due to the time, due to the place, divided into different kinds, or large or small, or cold wind, or the wind and the day, can be rocked straight up to the sky of the green clouds; in the art of drawing, it is concerned about the intention of the craftsman and the fan pen technique. Especially the Zayan kite, more anthropomorphic painting method, not only the picture colorful, pleasing to the eye, and the brushwork is delicate and varied, portraying exaggerated and realistic image. At the same time, it also pays attention to the artistic effect of the unity of ascension and intuition; in the flying technique, it pays attention to the actual flying effect, and pays attention to the use of different techniques according to different winds and wind directions, and at the same time pays attention to the dynamic beauty of the kite in the stillness, so as to make the kite reach the magical realm of the sky as the paper, the clouds as the water, and the journey to the heavenly palace.

The masterpieces of Cao's kites are the swallow kites, and each kind of swallow has its own style: the fat swallow is the male swallow which is robust and powerful, the thin swallow is the female swallow which can sing and dance well, the small swallow is the innocent child, the new swallow is the young man who is weak in the crown, and there are also the winged swallow which is a metaphor for the husband and wife, and the oldest and oldest swallow which is a symbol of longevity, and the patterns and patterns of the swallows are also different, which is very exquisite.