The kite is a mass sports recreational activity which widely developsin the various countries. Our country is one of kite history mostancient glorious countries. In extends several millenniums in thehistory, looks like the Spring and Autumn Period time gongshu "to dowoodenly yuan peeps the Song city", or when Chinese great-greatgrandfather Han Xin does zhiyuan surveys Wei Yang palace the distance,but also has Liangdi Emperor to siege by the rebel army, its sub- puts zhiyuan requests reinforcements and so on such historical evidence isvery many. These literary references showed zhiyuan or afterwardsdeveloped kite role which played in our country lives of the people.No wonder it once was all previous dynasties writer poet's writingtheme.
Kite English kite this word, in the ancient English is cyta, itoriginates from ancient Germanic kuze (owl) and ancient NorthernEurope language kyta (diamond thing). French called the kite iscerf-voldnt, Italy is "the soaring deer". They with an our country zhiyuan word different, all describes its image. Many countries alsohave a nationality and the kite related custom and the folklore. 18thcentury American statesmen, scientist Benjamin Franklin once flew thekite on the under rainy day to confirm in the atmosphere contained theelectricity, and has been afterwards inventing the lightning rod, thisthen the story was everybody knew very well.
Flies the kite is the old and young is all suitable, the healthy bodyand mind yulexing sports. It already can make use of local materials,the manufacture conveniently, is easy to popularize, also may finemanufacture, demonstration different nationality's exquisitetechnological level and fine arts idea. In recent years, becausereleased for flight the technical development, the kite becomesathletics very strong sports day by day. Since therefore the 80's,have been day by day frequent along with international exchange, flythe kite also gradually to become the international friendship contactand the cultural sports exchange the medium which welcome.
The kite is invents by the Chinese, had more than 2,000 years historyin China. Probably in 12 centuries, the Chinese kite passed to thewest, from this time on, this ancient activity unceasingly willdevelop in the later year, forms respectively has the characteristicthe East and West kite culture characteristic. May imagine, thehumanity is starting invents the kite time, certainly is pursuing onekind of mystery. One kind can from control by the humanity flies thething, sufficiently lets the person happily to extremely. Because atthat time was apart from now to have more than 2,000 years historyafter all. In the afterwards developing process, the kite starts toseek road of the utilization, has the traditional history the Chineseculture to start to kite this craft in to melt into, a main aspect isthe myth story, flower-and-bird Switzerland is beastly, the propitiousimplication and so on displays in the kite, along with timevicissitude, in on the Chinese main land, has formed the aloneplace characteristic kite culture. More is the historical remotething, remains is anxious many for the posterity. In Jin Yong'schivalric fiction novel very pursues valuably seeks the skill thestory, also is only in the novel content, is very difficult to examineits history really falsely. The kite, in China's history, in the pasthistory, always is regarded as is one kind "diao chong xiao ji". Has inhistorical accounts of past events which the history records, therelated kite content are very few, the people only can from the few innumber writing record, search the kite outset source.