The Origin of Kites and Kite Festival

Kites were invented in China. It is said that Mo Zhai made wooden birds out of wood, and it took three years to develop them. This is the earliest origin of kites. Later, his student Lu Ban used bamboo to improve the materials of kites in Mo Zhai, and even evolved into today's multi-line kites.

Kites originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and have a history of more than 2,000 years. According to legend, "Mozi is a wooden kite, which was made in three years and lost in one day." In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, kites began to be a tool for transmitting information, starting from the Sui and Tang Dynasties. With the development of paper industry, people began to paste kites with paper. Flying kites became a popular outdoor activity in the Song Dynasty. Song people's meticulous "Old Wulin Events" wrote: "During the Qingming Festival, people fly kites in the suburbs and return at sunset." "Kite" means kite. There are vivid kite-flying scenes in Zhang Zeduan's The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival in the Northern Song Dynasty and Su Hanchen's The Hundred Poems in the Song Dynasty.

Nowadays, flying kites in China plays an important role in foreign cultural exchanges, strengthening friendship with people all over the world, and developing economy and tourism.

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