The ancient Chinese called kites paper kites and what?

Ancient China generally called the kite "paper harrier " or "paper kite", "harrier" and "Kite" are hawk-like raptors. This is because the earliest shape of the kite is made of silk or paper into an eagle, when flying really like an eagle soaring in the air.

Ancient people have long fantasized about making tools that fly in the sky like birds, according to "Han Fei Zi - outside the storage said left" records, Mozi had invented such a flying machine "wooden kite": "Mozi for the wooden kite, three years and become, a day and defeat. One day and it failed." This means that Mozi spent three years to make a wooden eagle that could fly in the sky, but unfortunately it broke down in one day.

Origin of Kites

Folklorists believe that the ancient people invented kites mainly for the remembrance of their deceased relatives and friends, so when the ghost gate was briefly opened during the Qingming Festival, the sympathy for the deceased was sent on kites to be transmitted to the dead relatives and friends. It is said that in the late Tang Dynasty, because someone added strings to the kite, when the wind blew, it made a sound like a koto, hence the name "kite".

The kite was called "harrier" in ancient times and "kite" in the north. Most people believe that kites originated in China and then spread all over the world as a traditional folk craft. In fact, the first kites in China were made of wood. Mozi in Lushan (now Zibo, Shandong Province), "wood for the harrier, three years and become, fly a day and failed. Mozi made this "wood harrier" (or "wood kite") is China's earliest kite, but also the world's earliest kite.