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Complete the steps of making kites by hand.

The steps of making kites by hand are as follows:

1. Preparation material: a flexible and light paper, generally 50-70cm long and 30-45cm wide. You can also use cotton, rice paper, leather paper, two pieces of wood, one is 30-45cm, the other is 50-70cm long, a roll of hemp rope and a roll of nylon rope.

2. Put two pieces of wood in a cross shape and fix them with hemp rope. Be sure to fasten it, or the kite will fall apart when flying. The top of the cross is about 15 to 20 cm high and the lower part is about 35 cm high.

3. Draw your favorite pattern on the prepared paper. There are many patterns of kites, such as Nantong butterfly, dragon head centipede and swallow-shaped kite. Then stick the paper on the cross and cut off the extra parts.

4. Use a 35-50 cm nylon rope, with both ends of the rope tied to both ends of the short wooden strip respectively, then tie one end of a roll of nylon rope to the center of this nylon rope, cut the rope into a proper length, and finally tie some light and thick ropes to the tail of the kite.

Kite, also known as organ, kite, kite and kite, is called wind blowing in Minnan dialect (vernacular: Hong-chhoe). It was called "kite" in ancient times and "kite" in the north. Kite is a product that is heavier than air and can float in the air with the help of wind. In the late Tang Dynasty, people added whistles to paper kites, making sounds similar to those of Zheng and Qin, so they were called "kites" or "organs". Modern kites are collectively called kites, including paper kites without whistles.