The simple process of making a kite

Material preparation: kite paper, bamboo or wooden strips, and nylon string.

Steps:

1. First prepare a piece of paper with good toughness, thinness and lightness. The paper used to make traditional kites is generally tissue paper, rice paper, leather paper, etc.

2. Then fold the paper into a diamond shape, or draw a diamond shape, and cut off the excess to make the paper become a diamond shape.

3. Continue to prepare two wooden strips, use them to form a cross and tie them securely with rope.

4. Then poke two small holes in each of the four corners of the cut paper, so that you can use nylon rope to fix the cross on the paper.

5. Then prepare two nylon ropes, tie the two ends of one rope to the two ends of the short wooden bar, and then tie one end of a slightly longer nylon rope to the center of the nylon rope.

6. Finally, tie some streamers to the two ends and tail of the kite, and connect a bundle of very light lines to the tail end of the nylon rope, and the kite is finished.

Introduction to kites:

1. Kites were invented by the working people of ancient China during the Spring and Autumn Period of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, more than 2,000 years ago. According to legend, Mo Zhai made a wooden bird from wood and took three years to develop it. It was the earliest kite origin of mankind. Later, Lu Ban used bamboo to improve the material of Mo Zhai's kites. It was not until the Eastern Han Dynasty, after Cai Lun improved papermaking, that people began to make kites from paper, called "paper kites".

2. By the Southern and Northern Dynasties, kites began to become a tool for transmitting information; starting from the Sui and Tang Dynasties, due to the development of the paper industry, people began to use paper to decorate kites; by the Song Dynasty, kite flying became a favorite outdoor activity.