Types of kites in Chinese traditional kites

1, Beijing Kite There are seven art forms of Beijing Kite: tying cigarettes-also known as Beijing cigarettes, produced in Beijing. There are three kinds of fat swallows, thin swallows and young swallows.

Hard wing-also known as the word "rice", named after the skeleton structure resembles the word "rice". Generally made into the Monkey King, Zhong Kui or flower baskets.

Soft wings-mostly three-dimensional copying. Such as dragonflies, phoenixes, eagles, butterflies, crabs and peacocks.

For Yan, one bamboo can hold two kites. Swallows, butterflies and pigeons are generally ready, and they are released and chased, just like life.

Beat-divided into soft beat and hard beat, much like a tablet. Make an octagonal, diamond or ladybug image. This kind of kite must have a long tail or long ears. Other kinds of kites don't need a tail.

Line centipede or dragon kite.

Tubular lanterns, bucket-shaped kites.

Beijing kite still maintains its artistic features and style with exquisite skeleton, rigorous painting, elegance and high ornamental value. The representatives of Beijing kites are: Cao Shi kite, Guinness kite and Hargreaves kite. Beijing kites have developed rapidly in recent years, and there are many new people.

2. Weifang Kite Weifang Kite has been handed down from generation to generation with its unique artistic personality, and has gained a firm foothold with Beijing Kite and Tianjin Kite, and has made innovations in theme, modeling and painting. Weifang kites have a strong local life and vivid charm. The binding system absorbs the advantages of many families. Especially in the modeling structure and painting color of kites, the production technology of woodcut New Year pictures is transplanted to kites, and the traditional techniques of Chinese painting are applied to the drawing of kites, forming a unique style with beautiful modeling, exquisite workmanship and gorgeous colors, which has become an important school of kites in China.

The artistic modeling features and styles of Weifang kites are exquisite in material selection, exquisite in modeling, exquisite in paste, vivid in image, gorgeous in painting, various in variety and flexible in take-off.

Among the kite families in China, Weifang kites have a long history and a wide range of subjects. With its peculiar selection of materials, exaggerated deformation design, painter's New Year painting techniques and clever use of mechanical principles, it has formed a strong local flavor and unique charm, and is well-known at home and abroad.

3. Tianjin Kite The representative of Tianjin Kite is Wei Yuantai, known as Kite Wei. He is famous for his constant innovation in kite modeling, pattern painting and flying skills. He absorbs the advantages of others and is skilled. He punched holes, buckled and knotted the kite, and connected the head, body, wings and layers of the kite skeleton with tin-welded copper hoops. Kites tens of feet long can be folded and put into a one-foot long box or paper bag, which is convenient to carry. The butterfly kite he made can automatically change its position in the air, the airplane kite can scatter leaflets, and the Kitty Hawk kite can flap its wings and open and close its eyes. 1965438+On February 20th, 2005, the 14 kite made by Wei Yuantai won the gold medal at the Panama World Expo to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal. Kite Wei won the international Tianjin Kite Competition with his ingenious conception, unique tying technique and beautiful colors. The characteristics are highlighted in the binding skills of the skeleton and the color of the pattern. Kite modeling is innovative on the basis of tradition, and its conception and painting are refreshing. Wei, a kite-maker, once designed and made a skydiving device, which was superb in technology but simple to make. Use a straight tube made of soft reed pipe or hard tissue paper with a diameter of about 10 mm to cover the kite line, and install a hook with a diameter of about10 mm. There is a small parachute hanging from the hook handle. When flying, the parachute is blown open by the wind, driving the device to rise along the kite line. At the distance of 1 m from the kite, the fixed copper wire of the horizontal bar contacts with the handle of the hook, which makes the hook fall off and colorful parachutes fly all over the sky. Later, his disciples created various new styles of kites, such as birds flying and singing on strings. The most distinctive feature of Nantong kite is its sound generating device. There are rows of whistles of different sizes on the kite, ranging from 100 to 300. Nantong kite is called the air symphony.

5. Jiangnan Kite The representative works of Nanjing Kite are the traditional kites Pisces and Road Eagle printed in woodcut. In many places in the south of the Yangtze River, as soon as the lights are turned off during the Lantern Festival (after the 18th day of the first lunar month), kites will ascend to the sky. Tomb-Sweeping Day and Double Ninth Festival are the climax of flying kites. There are many kinds of kites in Jiangnan, with different styles. Small kites with soft wings can be seen everywhere, and the simplest one in southern Fujian is a tile block, which is square. The ganoderma lucidum kite made in Yangjiang County, Guangdong Province, is three meters high and has a huge bow at the top with copper strings on it. At high altitude, the sound of the wind travels for more than ten miles and is deeply loved by people. There is also a kite called Cliff Eagle, which can fly three kites on a line at the same time. When flying, two birds get up and down, alternately changing positions up and down, with beautiful movements. It is said that birds who once lived in the forest mistakenly thought that their peers were calling and came to swim in droves. Yangjiang's amusement ant kite is unique. Its head is a realistic shape of an ant, with a maximum length of 150 knots and a total length of more than ten feet. After flying, it is as lifelike as a long snake.

6. Kites in Taiwan Province Province The modeling features of kites in Taiwan Province Province: emphasizing features, generalizing and simplifying, exaggerating and deforming. Kites in Taiwan Province Province are famous for their soft wings. One is to take some beautiful lines of natural objects to form the shape of kites, and the other is to simulate the shape of natural objects to form kites. There are mainly 2/kloc-0 varieties of gyro, dragon, star anise, China city, eagle, butterfly, dragonfly, goldfish pick, Pisces, Haiyan, Qixing, seagull, palace lantern, flying tiger, centipede, big butterfly and big butterfly.

Structural types of kites Kites are generally made of bamboo, wrapped in paper or silk, and then carefully drawn. According to the structure and shape of kites, that is, from the perspective of viewing, kites can be divided into five categories: plate wings, hard wings, soft wings, rope wings and free wings. 3. Soft-winged kite Its lifting part (wing) consists of a main bamboo stick, and the second half of the wing is soft without bamboo sticks. Its structure is different from that of a hard-winged kite. Its main skeleton is mostly relief, with single-layer, double-layer and multi-layer skeletons. This kind of kite can show a wide range of themes, including birds, insects, goldfish and so on. When making, most of them imitate its shape, which can give people a vivid and realistic feeling.

The eagle kite in Beijing and Tianjin is a typical soft-winged kite, which imitates the shape of the eagle and exaggerates its design. Kites have a short belly and long wings. It is compared with other forms of kites. It has better takeoff performance. 5. Free kites Free kites refer to kites that cannot be classified into the above categories according to their shapes. For example, a triangular skeleton is used as a support, or a soft kite is drawn into an arc without a skeleton. Its advantages are simple manufacture, easy expression of various themes and good take-off performance.