What patterns do kites have?

Kite patterns include people, animals, flowers, birds, utensils, etc.

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".

By the Northern and Southern Dynasties, kites began to become a tool for conveying 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 had become a favorite outdoor activity.

Kite types

1, soft-winged kite

Soft-wing kites are common bird kites. Its lifting piece is a main wing strip. The lower fabric of the wings is soft and has no main strip to rely on. Most of the main body frames are made in relief. Most of its shapes are birds or insects, such as eagles, butterflies, bees, swallows, cranes, phoenixes, dragonflies, cicadas, mantises, etc., all belong to this type of kites.

2. Hard-winged kite

The common Shayan kite with ingot wings is of this type. Its characteristic is that the lifting blades are made of two horizontal bamboo strips up and down into the shape of the wings. The edges on both sides are high and the middle is concave to form a ventilation channel. The ends of the wings are tilted backward to allow wind to escape from the ends of the wings, making them look like ingots when viewed flat. Such as the rice-shaped kites, flower baskets, mandarin ducks, magpies, parrots, etc. that are popular in Beijing. The hard wings of this kind of kites are fixed in form, while the shape and skeleton structure outside the scope of the hard wings change with different content and themes.