What does kite mean?

Kites were invented by working people in ancient China during the Spring and Autumn Period of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, which has been more than 2,000 years since. 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, Luban improved bamboo and evolved into today's multi-line kite.

In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, kites began to be a tool for transmitting information. Since Sui and Tang Dynasties, due to the development of paper industry, people began to use paper to paste kites. Flying kites became a popular outdoor activity in the Song Dynasty.

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

Paper and silk are traditional kite-making materials with bright colors, which 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.

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The shape of kites mainly imitates natural creatures, such as birds, insects, animals and geometric solids. In terms of patterns, they are mainly designed according to personal preferences, including publicity signs, animals, butterflies, birds and so on.

Besides silk and paper, kites are also made of plastic. Bone stems include bamboo poles, wooden sticks and glue sticks. Someone has designed a boneless kite, whose structure is to introduce air into a wind pit made of silk, so that the kite can form a lightly floating air pillow, and then ride the wind.

China, Malaysia, the Philippines and Japan also have a large kite, and the blue sky is put in every kite festival. These kites vary in size from ten feet to twenty feet. The bone pole is made of bamboo, which is put by more than 0/00 people.