Shortcomings of ancient kites

The material workmanship is not as developed as modern!

Kites were invented by ancient Han Chinese laborers in the Spring and Autumn Period of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty in China, and have been used for more than 2,000 years now. Legend has it that Mo Zhai made a wooden bird out of wood and developed it for three years, which is the earliest origin of kites for human beings. Later Lu Ban used bamboo and improved the material of Mo Zhai's kite. It was not until the Eastern Han Dynasty that Cai Lun improved the art of papermaking that kites began to be made of paper, known as "paper kites".

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, kites began to become a tool for transmitting messages; from the Sui and Tang dynasties, due to the development of the paper industry, people began to use paper to frame kites; during the Song dynasty, kite-flying became a favorite outdoor activity. Zhou Mi, a Song dynasty scholar, wrote in The Old Story of Wulin, "During the Qingming Festival, people went to the countryside to fly kites, and returned only at sunset." The word "kite" refers to kites. Kite-flying is vividly depicted in Zhang Zeduan's "Riverside at Qingming" in the Northern Song Dynasty, and in Su Hanchen's "Hundred Sons" in the Song Dynasty.

In 1600 A.D., the Eastern kite (rhombus) was introduced to Europe.

History

Mo Zi (Mo Zhai) passed on the business of kite making to his student Lu Ban (also known as Gong Fu Ban), who, according to the "Mozi - Lu Wen Chuan", made kites from bamboo based on Mo Zhai's ideals and designs. Lu Ban split and sharpened the bamboo smooth, and bent it by roasting it over a fire, and made it into the appearance of a magpie, called a 'wooden magpie', which flew in the air for three days. It is said in the Book of Books that "Lu Ban made a wooden kite to spy on the city of Song". The earliest kites were not made of paper, but of wood. Legend has it that the first kite was made by Lu Ban, who called it "Wooden Kite", and it is recorded in "The Old Story of Zhu Gong" that Lu Ban "made a wooden kite and rode it to spy on Song City". And "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals - Love Class" recorded that "the Gongtu Bon for high ladder, want to attack the Song Dynasty. Mozi heard, from Lu to, split clothes wrapped feet, day and night, ten days and ten nights and arrived in Ying, see King Jing said: 'I northern mean people also, heard that the king will attack the Song Dynasty, the letter of it? Lu Ban was building a "high ladder" instead of a wooden kite.

In 190 B.C., during the Chu-Han conflict, Han general Han Xin attacked the Weiyang Palace and used kites to measure the distance of the tunnels under the Weiyang

Palace. At the Battle of Gaixia, Xiang Yu's army was besieged by Liu Bang's army, Han Xin sent someone to make a kite with cowhide, put a bamboo flute on it, and made a sound in the wind (one said that Zhang Liang used the kite to tie a person to play the blowjob). The Han army matched the sound of the flute with the sound of the flute and sang the Chu song, which dispersed the morale of the Chu army, which is the story of the idiom of Chu Ge from All Sides.

There are also records of kites in the official history, earlier than the Five Dynasties, one of which is the "Hou Jing's Rebellion" in the Southern Dynasty, Emperor Wu of Liang was besieged by Hou Jing, and the city wall was surrounded. Had flown kites to the outside for help, according to the Southern History Volume 80 "Hou Jing biography" said, in the Liang Wu Di Xiao Yan Da Qing three years (A.D. 549), Hou Jing rebellion, the rebels will be the emperor of the siege of Liang capital Jianye (i.e., today's Nanjing), internal and external isolation, some people offer to make a plan for the production of paper crows, the emperor's imperial edicts tied to which the crown prince Jianwen in the Taichi Palace outside the time, riding the northwesterly winds to cast to the outside to ask for help, was unfortunately found by rebel forces shot off, and soon the Taicheng that is! Unfortunately, the rebels found it and shot it down, and soon the city of Taicheng was captured, and the Liang Dynasty declined and died out from then on. This is the story of the unfortunate failure of Jian Wen to fly a kite to seek help from the outside.

It is said that in the fifth century B.C., Arcturus of Greece invented the kite, but unfortunately it was lost later. It wasn't until the 13th century that kites began to spread in the West, after the Italian Marco Polo returned to Europe from China.

From other evidence, it is confirmed that kites spread to Korea and then to Japan in the tenth century, and then to Europe in the thirteenth and fourth centuries. A kite is a toy that is made of paper or silk on a skeleton made of bamboo and gabion, and it is a flying machine that utilizes only air power by pulling a long string attached to it and taking advantage of the wind to fly it up into the sky. Kites originated in the Spring and Autumn Period, and have been used for more than 2,000 years. According to legend, "Mozi made a wood harrier for three years, but it failed to fly for one day". During the North and South Dynasties, kites began to be a tool for transmitting information; from the Sui and Tang dynasties, due to the development of the paper industry, folk began to use paper to frame kites; in the Song Dynasty, kite flying became a favorite outdoor activity. Zhou Mi, a Song dynasty scholar, wrote in The Old Story of Wulin, "During the Qingming Festival, people went to the countryside to fly kites, and returned only at sunset." The word "kite" refers to kites. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhang Zeduan's "Qingming Riverside" and Song Su Hanshen's "Hundred Sons", there are vivid scenes of kite flying. Nowadays, Chinese kite-flying activities play an important role in foreign cultural exchanges, strengthening friendship with people all over the world, and developing economy and tourism. Kites are the world's first heavier-than-air flying machines. Essentially the principle of kite flying is very similar to that of modern airplanes, the tension of the string, which creates relative motion with the air, thus gaining upward lift. Chinese kites are still on display in museums in some countries, such as a plaque in the U.S. National Museum

Kites close-up (10)

The plaque reads, "The world's earliest flying machines were Chinese kites and rockets". The British Museum also called the Chinese kite "China's fifth greatest invention". According to historical records, the Chinese kite was introduced to Europe around the 14th century, which played an important role in the invention of gliders and airplanes.

In the thirteenth century, Italian Marco Polo returned to Europe from China, and then it was spread to all over the world. According to ancient books: "Li Ye in the fifth generation in the palace made paper kite, fuse ride the wind for the play, after the kite in the head of the bamboo for the flute, so that the wind into the bamboo, the sound of the kite, so the name kite." Therefore, can not make a sound called "paper kite", can make a sound called "kite".

Kites and military

The origin of kites can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period (770-221BC), more than 2,000 years ago. Due to the needs of war, the ancients made "wooden kites" that could fly in the air in the shape of a bird and with wood as the material. According to "Han Fei Zi", "Mozi made a wooden kite for three years, but it failed in one day". According to "Hongshu", Lu Ban also made a wooden kite, saying: "Gongshu Ban made a wooden kite to spy on the city of Song". In ancient China, the wooden kite has been an important tool for communication and detection during war, and can bring gunpowder to be used as a weapon of war attack.

Lu Ban was a native of Lu (present-day Qufu, Shandong Province), and Mozi was an outstanding thinker, politician and founder of kites with strong Chinese characteristics during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Mozi was also a native of Lu (a native of Song), and it is inferred that the origin of the kite, "Wooden Kite," should have been in the area of Qilu.

The earliest kite in folklore was created by Zhang Liang, who sat on a big harrier and flew to the top of Xiang Yu's army, and sang the folk songs of homesickness in the harrier, which made Xiang Yu's army "sing songs of Chu on all sides", and the so-called "all the soldiers look homeward all night long", and the army had no will to fight, and then Xiang Yu was defeated.

Anciently, kites were used as military reconnaissance tools, and there are historical records of measuring distance, crossing dangers and carrying people.

During the Han Dynasty, when the Chu and Han Dynasties were in conflict, Han Xin had a large kite made and a bamboo whistle and bowstring installed, which was floated in the Chu camp at night to make strange sounds to break the morale of the Chu army.

Northern Qi - Emperor Gao Yang, the Emperor of Wenxuan, had a man tied with wings and made him jump from a tower to his death, named "Sheng".

North and South Dynasties - Kites were once used as a means of communication to call for help. When Emperor Wu of Liang, Hou Jing besieged the city of Taicheng, Jian Wen tried to make a paper kite, flying in the air to tell the emergency outside, but the result was shot down and defeated, the fall of Taicheng, Emperor Wu of Liang starved to death, leaving behind this kite for help story.

Tang Dynasty - will be used for military kites, has been gradually transformed into recreational purposes, and the court out of kite flying.

Song Dynasty - people flew kites as an exercise, and during the Qingming Festival, people flew kites high and far, and then cut the strings, so that the kites would take away the bad luck accumulated in a year.

Ming Dynasty - kites with explosives, according to the principle of "kite touch", detonation of the fuse on the kite, in order to achieve the purpose of killing and wounding the enemy. Qing dynasty - that is, there are double paper control kite detailed drawing size and explanation.

Japanese hypocritical period - because of military reasons prohibited kite flying, because brightly colored kites can be transmitted to the enemy message, and provide aircraft bombing targets. The U.S. Army in World War II used stunt kites as moving targets for target practice.

In 1980, kites began to gain popularity, and in addition to the original dual-line, they evolved into three- and four-line technical or stunt kites.

Throughout the ages, people have hoped for a long and healthy life. There are a lot of motifs that symbolize and celebrate longevity: there are evergreen pines and cypresses, there are cranes and colorful ribbon birds that are said to enjoy thousands of years of life, and there are Lingzhi, an "immortal herb" that is said to be able to last a hundred years, and Xiwangmu's peaches that can make people immortal, etc. The pursuit of and expression of longevity are also expressed in the motifs of "immortal grass" and "immortal peach". The character for longevity has more than 10,000 different shapes and variations. The character "Wan", which originated from Buddhism, means "as many as ten thousand". In Shayan kites, the pattern of the waist is mostly the "Wan" pattern. Auspicious patterns and kites related to this are: "auspicious clouds and crane life", "eight immortals congratulate life" and so on.

Happy:

Expressing people's good, pleasant and happy mood. There are many forms of the Chinese character "喜", and "囍" is a common symbol of joy. Magpies are the "signs" of happiness

Kites

There are "Xi" kites, "Xi Xi" kites touching, etc., and the kites and kites related to this are: "Xi" kites, "Xi Xi" kites, "Xi Xi" kites, "Xi Xi" kites, and "Xi Xi" kites. Auspicious patterns include: "Happy Eyebrows", "Double Happiness", "Joyful Celebration", "Fortune, Longevity and Happiness", "Double Happiness", "Double Happiness", "Double Happiness", "Double Happiness", "Double Happiness", "Double Happiness" and "Double Happiness". "Double Happiness Fuxiang". Joyful patterns are quite interesting, there are a hundred butterflies, a hundred birds, a hundred flowers, a hundred auspicious, a hundred longevity, a hundred blessings, a hundred joys and other patterns, such as "a hundred birds facing the phoenix". Between the allegory of a happy marriage, couple harmony with mandarin ducks kites and other patterns.

Auspicious:

Dragons, phoenixes and unicorns are imaginary birds of prey. Turtle is a symbol of longevity in ancient times, and later replaced by turtle back pattern. Particularly need to emphasize the topic of the dragon, China is a dragon country, in our country the dragon is a special meaning, the dragon has the horns of a deer, the head of a cow, the body of a python, the scales of a fish, the claws of the eagle magical creatures, is regarded as a symbol of the ancient civilization of China. Traditional auspicious motifs composed of birds, animals and other objects include: "Dragon and Phoenix", "Two Dragons Playing with Pearls", "Colorful Phoenix Fly Together", "Hundred Birds Towards Phoenix" and so on. Birds in the Phoenix" and so on. The traditional Chinese kites - dragon head centipede long string kites, especially the large dragon kites, are loved for their spectacular flying scenes and majestic power.

Related Legends

Editorial

There are four general legends about the origin of kites. One is the bucket and leaf theory; the second is the sailboat and tent theory; the third is the flying bird theory; and the fourth is the Liye theory.

But as far as the conclusion that kites originated in China is concerned, it is unanimously recognized by the world kite industry.

Flying kites in the blue sky

Doo hats, leaves said

Doo hats are an ancient rain and heat instruments, when human beings from fishing and hunting to farming began to use, especially in the tropical subtropics is essential, then the production of the bucket hats is very simple, the tie rope is also locally sourced materials, mostly with soft bark fibers. It is said that a farmer is plowing, suddenly windy, rolled up his bucket hat, the farmer rushed to chase, a grabbed the rope. It happened that the rope was very long and the hat flew in the air like a kite. The farmer found it so interesting that he often flew the hats to the villagers, which later evolved into kite flying. Leaves are said to come from the southern part of China. It is said that in ancient times, people worshiped the phenomenon of leaves flying all over the sky in the wind, so they used hemp wire to tie the leaves and play with them, which gradually evolved into kite-flying activities. The Gaoshan people of Taiwan and the Li people of Hainan Island earlier used the leaves of breadfruit trees to make kites.

Sailboats and tents

Human beings have a long history of using wooden boats, as early as 2,000 years B.C., they were used in production, and later there were sailboats. Legend has it that there was already a sail on the boat at the time of Yu, and the sail was a wind-powered machine, so people followed the principle of the sail and tied up kites to fly them. Others say that kites originated from tents in the north, and that the earliest kites were made to imitate the phenomenon of tents flying in the air when the wind blew them up, and then gradually evolved into a kind of amusement activity. [5]

The Birds of Prey

From the historical records and the discovery of ancient kites, their structure, shape, and tie-drawing techniques, a prominent sign is the shape of birds. Thus, it is concluded that the first kites were created, inspired by birds, imitating birds and named after birds. It is people's pursuit of a better life that they revere birds, love birds

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and make kites imitating birds. It is a natural reason for kites to be born as a result. Kites originated in China, which is now a unanimously recognized conclusion in the world kite industry, and the earliest Chinese kites were made by an ancient scientist, Mo Zhai. According to the Chinese historical material "Han Fei Zi - Outer Reserve": Mo Zhai lived in Lu Mountain (now Shandong Qingzhou area) "hacking wood for the harrier, three years and become, fly a day and defeat." It is said that Mozi studied for three years, finally made a wooden bird with wood, but only flew a day on the bad. This "wooden harrier" made by Mozi is the earliest kite in China. [

The fourth theory is that the kite was invented by Li Ye in the Five Dynasties period. The text of the Ming Dynasty Chen Yi in the "inquiry ruminant record - kite" wrote: Li Ye in the Five Dynasties in the palace to make paper kites, the fuse ride the wind play. After the kite in the head, the bamboo as a flute, so that the wind into the bamboo, such as the sound of the kite, so the name kite.

Construction

The shapes of kites mainly imitate the creatures of nature, such as birds, insects, animals and geometric cubes. As for the pattern, it is mainly designed by personal preference, and there are various kinds of promotional logos, animals, butterflies, birds and so on.

The construction materials of kites are not only silk and paper, but also plastic. There are gabions, wood and glue sticks. Some people have designed a boneless kite, which is constructed by introducing air into a silken wind pit, so that the kite forms a gently floating air pillow, and then rides on the wind. In China, Malaysia, the Philippines and Japan, there are also large kites that are placed in the blue sky during kite festivals, with sizes ranging from 10 to 20 feet. The kites are made of large bamboo poles and are flown by more than a hundred people.

Making

Ordinary kites are usually made of bamboo for the skeleton, paper for the flesh, and other composite materials including silk, nylon cloth, plastic film or bamboo gabions, gauze paper strips, and mara paper.

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Paper and silk silk for general traditional kite making materials, coloring bright and bright, better reflect the charm of Chinese kites; but paper is easy to break, silk expensive, and the product of modern science - nylon cloth and plastic film, became a new material for the manufacture of kites.

Bamboo is the main material for making the skeleton of the kite, you can choose the bamboo with wall thickness of 3-5 centimeters and cut it into bamboo slices, and make use of the toughness of the bamboo slices to make the skeleton of the kite. The skeleton of kite can be prepared according to personal preference, such as dragonfly, butterfly and so on.

Paper is the main material of the kite, which is thin, long and even fiber, rich in toughness, resistant to wetness and impact, and white and clean in color. The paper is put on the skeleton and then tied to the line, and the kite is ready.

At this point, you can also be done on the kite painted in your favorite colors, lace, or tied with ribbons, hanging paper rings. While the right amount of attachments can't affect the kite's flight through the air, too many attachments can unbalance the kite's flight. Most modern kites use advertising cloth as the kite's fabric, and the skeleton has changed from the bamboo of old to charcoal rods, which greatly improves flight.

Universal methods

Tools:Paste, paper knife

Materials:Bamboo gabions, gauze paper strips, mara paper, thread

Features of square kites:

(1) This kind of quadratic kite is now the most used and the most common.

(2) The skeleton of the kite is very simple to form with two branches alone.

(3) Although the method is simple, there are many variations, and you can make a lot of things with a little work.

How to do it:

First, soak the bamboo gabions in water to make them soft, then use a knife to break the gabions, about one-third of the thickness, and then trim half of the shape, because the gabions will be pasted onto the mara-paper later, and if they are too thick, the gabions will break the paper, and if the gabions are too thick, the saran wrap won't be able to hold on to the paper. Cut the repaired gabions into two lengths, about 16 inches and 23 inches.

Cut the mara paper into a square about 24 inches long. Mara paper is a very rough paper and is best suited for kites.

At this point the gabions can be attached to the paper, but remember to take the long gabion, tie it in one of the short thirds with saran wrap, and then bend it slowly until the ends of the long gabion touch the paper on top of the opposite corners of the paper to attach it.

Put the tail of the kite underneath the kite, and then launch the kite when the angle between the line and the kite is better.

Note:

The tail of the kite is the main tool to balance the kite, when the kite rides on the wind, if one side is heavier, the kite will be biased towards this side, and the tail is better to be longer, because the longer it is, the more weight will be lifted up from the head of the kite, so that the whole body will be affected by the wind, and balanced on the side of the kite that is biased.

The kite's silk line can use cowhide line, cotton line, glass line and other line reels. It can be divided into round line reel and row reel to tie the line on the kite, to make a diagonal angle.

Simple method

Tools, raw materials: paper; thin stick; adhesive and so on.

Methods and steps: Prepare the items to make the kite, build the thin stick into an outline of a kite. Note that the interface with a line tied firmly, thin stick can also be wrapped in a layer of paper, easy to stick the cover later.

Cover the kite. Make three tails for the kite, stick them first or not, depending on the actual situation when flying.

In addition to the triangles, you can also make diamond-shaped ones, in much the same way, with a slight variation in shape.

Tying up and test-flying the kite, it is better to use a stronger line, so that you can retrieve it when you fly high. The position of the lines may affect the kite's takeoff, so be careful

to adjust them.

Technique

Overview of kite art

Chinese kites have a long history and excellent technique, which has long been recognized by the world. However, there is not much detailed information on Chinese kites

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and even less on the specific techniques of Chinese kites. Chinese legend Cao Xueqin written by the "South Harrier North Kite Kao Gongzhi" is a description of Chinese kite technology monographs, but so far not only can not see the full text of this book, even if this is true, Cao's whether there is a waste of art Zhai Collected Works of this set of writings, but also the lack of sufficient circumstantial material, the academic community is still in the middle of the controversy, there is no conclusion. Subjectively speaking, we hope that Cao or other ancestors can leave a valuable material about Chinese kite flying techniques for future generations, so that present generations can inherit and develop it. But hope cannot replace facts, and we can only wait for new discoveries in this regard. Apart from that, there are some genealogical styles that have been passed down. For example, it is said that Song Huizong's "Xuanhe Kites" is one of the earlier ones, but we have not seen it so far. Others are the genealogies collected by various kite families or kite players, some of which can still be found today. Although these genealogies have their own limitations, they are after all valuable information, among which it is worth mentioning that the book "Kite Genealogy" written by Jin Tiean in the 30's is more valuable, the shortcoming is that there is no chart, which may be due to the printing and publishing conditions and financial constraints at that time and there are charts but not printed. In addition to the "genealogy", there is also a valuable physical material in China - "strips", i.e., the standard bamboo strips used for making a certain kind of kite skeleton, which are generally passed down from generation to generation in the families producing a large number of kites, such as the Beijing Kites, the Beijing Kites, and the Beijing Kites. This is usually passed down from generation to generation in families that produce a large number of kites, for example, the family of "Kite Ha" in Beijing has a bundle of "strips" that have been passed down for several generations. This supplements the insufficiency of the "genealogy" which only has pictures but no skeleton or only a skeleton but no specific size and thickness of the bamboo strips, thus making the transmission of the kite techniques more complete. In addition to words, pictures and objects, the teaching of Chinese folk crafts mainly relies on "oral teaching", which is the "secret" used by folk craftsmen. These are "songs" or "cuttings" that are used for the sake of good teaching, memorization and confidentiality. Due to the cultural limitations of the artists, these songs or cuttings often have sounds but no words, or have words but no form, and many of them have been lost, modified, or erased in the circulation. The discussion of kite flying techniques in China is mainly based on the above. The limited cultural heritage is used as a reference for the historical background, and the existing traditional Chinese kites are analyzed based on the scientific technology of craftsmanship and the principles of flight mechanics, hoping that it can provide a little reference for the promotion and development of Chinese kite techniques in the future.

The skills of traditional Chinese kites are summarized in four words: tying, gluing, painting and flying. In short, it is called the "four arts". Simply understand these "four arts" is to tie the frame, paste the paper surface, paint the flowers and colors, and fly the kite. But in fact, the connotation of these four words is much wider, almost including all the contents of traditional Chinese kite flying techniques. For example, "tie" includes: selecting, splitting, bending, cutting and connecting. "Paste" includes: selecting, cutting, gluing, edging, schooling. "Painting" includes: color, base, tracing, dyeing and repairing. "Putting" includes: wind, line, put, tune, close. The comprehensive use of these "four arts" should reach the level of kite design and innovation.

Our country attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, and on May 20, 2006, kite-making skills were approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

Kites carry people

In October 2009, in the open space of Chenghai District, Shantou, Guangdong Province, Chen Wangsong, the "King of Shantou Kites", flew a 100-meter-long "Dragon Centipede" kite, which carried an elementary school student into the sky. This is not the first time that Chen Wangsong has challenged himself to fly a kite. This is not the first time that Chen Wangsong has challenged the kite record, and in the course of twenty years of flying kites, this peasant boy has gradually found his place in life.

Related Famous Artists

Wei Yuantai, Chen Shanting, Zhang Yanlu, Mou Xiulan, Guo Thuxin, Hu Jingzhu, Yang Tongke, Yang Wanshan, Han Lianxi, Kang Wanxiang, Sun Yongchun, and Zhang Xiaodong.

Factions

Traditional Folk Faction

Weifang folk kites, historically, are relative to court kites and artisan kites: in modern times, they are relative to modern new-style kites.

The characteristics are:

(1) The makers of folk kites, most of them are peasants and craftsmen, generally speaking, have no specialized training in art. They express their ideals and wishes in an unrestrained manner according to their

own intuitive feelings about life and aesthetic habits, and their kites, whether in shape, materials, color configuration and production style, carry a strong local flavor.

(2) Most of the folk kites are made in conjunction with the traditional festivals of Ching Ming and Chung Yeung Festival, so their themes are selective and their forms are decorative.

(3) Folk kites are usually made of local materials, scornfully tied with papier-maché, and are not very elaborate, but their styles are rough and not pretentious.

(4) Folk kites are influenced by regional culture, economy and customs, and they often observe and consult each other in the production, plus the factors of ancestral and inherited

So, folk kites are colored with ancient traditions, and they are actually a kind of collective creation.

Traditional artisans

As the business of selling kites appeared, full-time kite artisans came into being. In the history of Weifang, there were even many famous painters involved in the drawing and even designing of kites, which led to the emergence of very elaborate fine products in Weifang kites. Of course, these fine products are not affordable to the general public, and the rich people who buy these kites often put forward their requirements and order them from the artists, which is the case of the proverb "seven parts of the owner and three parts of the craftsmen" handed down to us. In addition, during the change of the old and new dynasties, some palace kite artists fell to the folk, which also promoted the development and improvement of the artisan party kites, making them with the solemn and luxurious features of the palace kites. The traditional artisan school has played a good role in promoting the development of the kite business in Weifang, which has made the Weifang kites rise from general toys to valuable handicrafts and become an important part of the local culture of Weifang.

Modern Innovation School

In modern times, due to the fact that the majority of professional art workers, technicians, workers and urban residents enthusiastically participate in kite-making activities, they give full play to the advantages of modern craftsmanship, modern science and technology, and create brand-new modern kites on the basis of inheriting traditional kites. The main features of modern kites are that they attach importance to the use of new materials and new crafts, and the modeling is simple, bright, fresh and ingenious, with a distinctive epochal character.

Types

Soft-winged kites

That is to say, it is generally common avian kites. Its lifting piece (wing) is a main wing bar constituting the lower cloth of the wing is soft, without the main bar attached, and most of the main body frame is made into relief type. Most of its shapes are birds or insects. Eagles, butterflies, bees, swallows, cranes, phoenixes, dragonflies, cicadas, praying mantis and so on belong to this kind of kites. In order to put there is a kind of detachable soft-wing kite, the traditional up and down separate butterfly wings, changed to live wings, fixed skeleton, easy to fold, fly the effect of realistic, or the top of the wings one by one, to ensure the stability of the kite.

Hard-winged kites

The common Yuanbao wing task sand swallow kite belongs to this kind. It is characterized by the fact that the lifting piece (wing) is made in the shape of a wing with upper and lower horizontal bamboo strips, with high edges on both sides and concave in the middle to form a ventilation channel. The ends of the wings are tilted backward so that the wind escapes from the ends of the two wings, which looks like a Yuanbao shape when viewed flat. The hard wings of these kites are fixed, while the shape and structure of the skeleton outside the range of the hard wings vary according to the subject matter of the kites, as in the case of the meter kites, flower baskets, mandarin ducks, magpies and parrots popular in Beijing.

Dragon kites

The dragon kites are mainly centipede kites with dragon heads, which are also a major feature of Weifang kites.

Plate kites

That is to say, people's legendary plane-shaped kites. In terms of structure and shape, its lifting piece is the main body, no raised structure, and the kite is supported by bamboo strips on all sides.

This kind of kite is more common, easy to tie up, with good lifting performance, and suitable for showing many kinds of themes, which is the most favorite one for children and teenagers. Board kites, also known as beat kites in Beijing and Tianjin, are octagonal diamond-shaped or ladybug-shaped, and these kites usually have a long tail or spike, which is beneficial for takeoff. Among the board kites, the simplest one is the "valve" block, a square piece, called it "two hundred and fifty-five" in the southern countryside, commonly known as "zhengzi" in the north, also called "fart curtain". The "fart curtains".

Three-dimensional kites

Generally use a folding structure of the skeleton, consisting of one or more barrels or other shapes of barrels, such as lanterns, vases, rockets, etc.

Sports kites

Sports kites, also known as aerobatics, are also known as dual-line kites or compound-line kites. They are usually triangular, paraglider-like and spectacle-shaped. Sport kite is a newly emerging sport in China, different from traditional kites, sport kites not only have single line, but also double line and quad line, which can do some actions in the air. Such as moving horizontally, swooping, circling around, turning around, etc. That is to say, the kite is controlled by two or more pulling lines, and manipulated by both hands, and the various aerobatic movements such as left rotation, right rotation, lifting and lowering are all accomplished by the skills of wrists and arms. Sport kite flight speed up to 150 kilometers per hour, both single player can also do team stunts, flying people have to drive the wind feeling. [7]

Double line is generally divided into three kinds:

1: Stunt (this is generally the beginning of the start can be made all the geometric shapes, such as: circle, square, triangle, 8 words, etc.)

2: Ballet formation (formation as the name implies is that you can be several kites to do some collective action, so that in the stunts on the basis of the kites in the formation of a team to go to a more accurate position, better control, speed is also moderate and not very fast, so that you can fly the kite in a team, so that you can have a better control. The speed is also moderate and not very fast, and also can do some basic roll action, simple roll action such as: axis roll, half roll, vertical landing, sudden stop, hovering, etc., ballet machine is the formation of flying kites must choose! (Stunts)

3: Fancy roll (some people don't understand what is called roll, stunt kites in general can only do some plane graphics, but the roll kite can be out of control through the kite in the provisions of the maneuver up to do some non-planar action, like what gymnasts flip 360 degrees ah Continuous Flip 720 what. But Precision (precision control) is not as good as ballet)

Four-line kites, on a kind of no what kind of difference. A four-line kite generally follows a flat geometric pattern, but it can be stationary, forward and backward, kind of like a helicopter.

Barrel line kites

Kites consisting of one or more barrels or other shapes of barrels, such as lanterns, vases, rockets, bottles, etc., all belong to this category.

Free class

The free class includes the kites which are cross-category and utilize new technology and absorb the strengths of foreign kites. Cross-type kites, such as "Magpie Bridge Meeting", which combines string, three-dimensional, board and other methods into one; and new technologies, such as the 120-meter-long string kites "One Hundred and Eight Generals of Liangshan" and "One Hundred Birds Towards the Phoenix", which not only can meet the wind, but also can be used to fly the kites in the direction of the sea, but also can be used in the direction of the sea. "and so on, not only can the wind rotation, but also can beat the gong, smoke and fire," the Monkey King "can also be in the flying seventy-two changes.