What is a kite made of?

Kite consists of five parts: skeleton, kite face, tail, lifting line and flying line.

Ordinary kites usually use bamboo as the skeleton and paper as the meat. Other composite materials include silk, nylon cloth, plastic film or bamboo strips, gauze paper and horse-drawn paper.

Paper and silk are commonly used materials for making traditional kites, and their bright colors can better reflect the charm of China kites. But paper is fragile and silk is expensive, and the products of modern science-nylon cloth and plastic film-have become new materials for making kites.

Bamboo is the main material for making kite skeletons. Bamboo with a wall thickness of 3-5 cm can be cut into bamboo pieces, and the toughness of bamboo pieces can be used as the skeleton of kites. The skeleton of a kite can be compiled according to personal hobbies, such as dragonfly shape and butterfly shape.

Paper is the main material of covered kites. It is best to have fine and uniform fibers, toughness, moisture resistance and impact resistance, and white and clean colors. Paste the paper on the skeleton, then tie the string, and the kite is finished.

Extended data:

After the China kite came out, it was quickly used to measure military needs such as transmitting information and crossing obstacles. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, due to the emergence of the paper industry, kites were made of paper paste, which quickly spread to the people and became people's entertainment toys.

Kites in the Song Dynasty were popular among the people. With the increase of international communication, kites in China are spread all over the world. First, it spread to neighboring countries such as Japan and North Korea, and then it crossed the ocean and spread to Myanmar, Malaya, Indonesia and New Zealand, and even further eastern islands.

The other line enters Arabia and western Europe along the "Silk Road" or the Mongolian route. Kyle Polo, an Italian who was an official in China in Yuan Dynasty 17, also introduced kites to the west after returning home.