What is a kite? What is a kite?

1, a generic term for a class of small raptors. Kites belong to Hawkiformes, Hawkidae and Harriet subfamily, which belong to 5 genera and 8 species.

Any of various birds of prey, including Avinidae, Aviinae, Aviinae and Aviinae. A typical kite has a light body, a small head, a partially exposed face, a short mouth, and long and narrow wings and tail.

2. Paper kites refer to kites, which were invented by working people in ancient China in the Spring and Autumn Period of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and have been around for more than 2,000 years. According to legend, Mo Zhai made wooden birds out of wood, which took three years to develop, and was the earliest origin of human kites. Later, Lu Ban used bamboo to improve the materials of kites in Mo Zhai, and even evolved into today's multi-line kites.

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Kites are called paper kites because:

The kite is a big bird. Ancient kites were mainly made by imitating the shape of kites. Like ancient rockets, it is mainly used to transmit signals in the military field. Because it is made of paper, it is called a kite.

In the Five Dynasties, Li Zheng made a paper kite in the palace and led the kite to play in the wind. Later, he made a bamboo flute on the head of the kite, and let the wind blow into the flute, which sounded like A Zheng, hence the name kite. So those that don't make a sound are called paper kites, and those that make a sound are called kites.

The origin of kites:

The ancients invented kites mainly to miss the sophisticated relatives and friends, so when Tomb-Sweeping Day's ghost gate was briefly opened, they pinned their sympathy on kites and gave them to their dead relatives and friends.

Kites were called kites in ancient times and kites in the north. The earliest kites in China were made of wood. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Mo Zhai (478-392 BC), a philosopher of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, spent three years flying into the sky with a wooden kite.

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