Weifang
Since the first Weifang International Kite Festival in 1984, the annual international kite festival has been held in mid-April every year, and Weifang was designated as the "Kite Capital of the World" by the Fifth International Kite Festival in 1988. As of 2012, twenty-nine kite festivals have been successfully held, which have also made outstanding contributions to the economic development of Weifang.
The Weifang International Kite Festival is an annual international kite festival, which is generally scheduled to be held in Weifang, the capital of kites, from April 20 to 25 every year.Since the first Weifang Kite Festival was held in 1984, it has attracted a large number of Chinese and foreign kite experts and enthusiasts as well as tourists to come to watch, compete and visit the festival. Travelers are advised to arrive in Weifang before April 20th.
The Weifang International Kite Festival is not only a festival for exchanging kite skills, but also a good opportunity to learn about kite folk culture. The whole Weifang Kite Festival is accompanied by colorful folk traditional art activities. Traditional folk lanterns are exhibited in a thousand different shapes and sizes under the night curtain, and folk fireworks, with their excellent lighting skills, show historical drama and storytelling scenes, which are exciting and marvelous.
The kite concert, the wonderful singing of the famous stars of the art world intoxicated people. Weifang kites have a long history, exquisite workmanship, beautiful shape, smooth flying, easy to take off. Yangjiabu Village, located 15 kilometers northeast of downtown, is the hometown of kites. Yangjiabu kites are famous for their exquisite workmanship, fine drawing and high and stable take-off, which are divided into six series and more than sixty varieties, including string, plate, three-dimensional, soft wing, hard wing and free-style. Yangjiabu woodblock prints, on the other hand, are famous both at home and abroad, alongside Yang Liuqing in Tianjin and Taohuayu in Suzhou. Here you can see the kite and woodblock print workshops in the courtyard style, a typical folk building of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and see the whole process of the artists' skills in carving the paintings and tying the kites. The Chinese and foreign kites of the previous kite festivals are displayed in the Weifang Kite Museum, the largest professional museum in the world, with a wide range of themes, many patterns, exquisite tying skills and different shapes, which make people dazzled and dazzled and forget to come back.
The International Kite Federation was established at the Sixth Kite Festival, with its headquarters in Weifang. At the same time, the Weifang International Kite Festival is an event combined with the development of export-oriented economy, during which the Weifang Foreign Economic and Technical Trade Fair is held, attracting a large number of Chinese and foreign businessmen to come to negotiate trade, technical exchanges and sightseeing tours.
Wuhan
The 2014 Third Central China Mulan Grassland Kite Festival opened on April 12, 2014, in Wuhan. The festival will gather kite masters from all over the country. The festival is jointly organized by the Mulan Grassland Scenic Area and the Hubei Provincial Kite Association, and the large size, variety and number of kites are the largest in central China. In the month-long kite festival, there will be tens of thousands of kites of different shapes and forms to meet with the tourists. At that time, there will be tens of thousands of paper kites flying in unison and tens of thousands of dreams flying in unison on the Mulan grassland.
The kite festival will not only feature professional aerial kite performances, but also more than 20 groups of giant kites of more than 2 meters and thousands of kites from all over the country with different shapes and colors of different cultures, which will allow tourists to learn about China's kite culture and history while visiting the festival.
Located in Huangpi District of Wuhan City, Mulan Grassland is the only AAAA Mongolian style scenic spot in Central China, located in Niejiagang, Wangjiahe Street, Huangpi District, Wuhan, Jingchu Famous Mountain - Mulan East East, Hubei Top Ten Recreation Resort - Mulan Lake, south of the "Mulan Lake", is the "Mulan Lake". South of Mulan Lake, one of the "Mulan Eight Scenes".
The scenic area is 36 kilometers away from the center of Wuhan, the nearest highway exit 12 kilometers, the traffic is very convenient. April of the grassland, green grass, vast and sprawling, mountain flowers, scenic area of a natural, quiet and peaceful. The reporter saw, the tourists to the scenic area, are to be in a row first in the iconic building in front of the gatehouse photo, and then free in the clear egret lake and quiet Mongolian tribe before the grassland walk, there are many tourists into the Mongolian yurt to enjoy the rich characteristics of the national song and dance performances and instrumental performance.
Because of the special geography of the Mulan Grassland, it is particularly suitable for kite flying in April when the grass is long and the warblers are flying. "Holding a thin line in your hand, you can see the thousands of paper kites flying in the boundless sky, leisurely and leisurely." It is reported that Mulan Grassland has successfully held the largest kite festival in central China for two consecutive years before, attracting many tourists to Wangjiahe in Huangpi District to watch the kite competition and enjoy Wuhan's grassland culture and northern Serbian style.
Many professional kite-flying experts from all over the country who have won awards in international and national kite-flying competitions will gather at the Mulan Grassland to bring a visual feast! Among them are the majestic Chinese Dragon, the stunt women's kite show composed of ten beautiful women, flying in formation with brilliant and colorful patterns, bringing the most shocking visual impact and letting the audience feel the artistic enjoyment of air ballet. There will also be a variety of cartoon kites hand-painted and produced by the famous cartoonist Mr. Tian Hengyu, the world's smallest miniature asymmetric kites, the Dream of the Red Chamber kite series, and so on, for your enjoyment.
Yangjiang
Yangjiang is known as "Paper Harrier City" and "Hometown of Kites in China", and together with Weifang in Shandong, the "Capital of Kites", it is also known as the largest kite flying school in the north and south. The two major genres of kites in the north and south of China. Since 1992, Yangjiang has been holding mass kite competitions at the South China Kite Arena on the 9th day of the 9th month of the lunar calendar every year.
Yangjiang kites have a history of more than 1400 years. As early as the Song Dynasty, Yangjiang already had the custom of flying kites on Chongyang. It is said that there was a state official named Wang Gan, who chiseled a "flowing cup pool" on an "immortal palm stone" in the north mountain, and invited celebrities from all walks of life to gather on the stone every Chung Yeung Festival to "float goblets of water" on one side and fly kites on the other. "on one side, flying kites on the other side to watch, the surrounding people also set up tents in the mountains to watch. Yangjiang County Records: "On the ninth day of the year, the company of wine to choose the winners to ascend the heights, scholars poems, children fly paper kites higher and lower." To the Qing Dynasty, the scene is even more spectacular. The Qing Dynasty poet Lin Baoying wrote: "The Fudu seven levels of the north mountain pass, paper harriers are different from ten thousand shadows." It was a great event at that time.
Yangjiang's kites have many varieties, exquisite conception, and ancient style. The traditional kites, also called "angry kites", have more than 10 kinds of kites, such as "Hundred-foot" (centipede), "Ganoderma lucidum", "Cliff Eagle", etc., which are flown in the wind. There are more than 10 kinds of kites, which flutter and dance in the wind and are very lifelike. Among them, there is a kind of kite that can drum up the wind and locate itself at high altitude for people's enjoyment, called "Pai Peng Kite", and there are more than 10 kinds of common shapes such as flowers, birds, insects and fish, birds and beasts, etc. There is also a kind of "Wind Moth Kite". There is also a "wind moth kite", can be automatically lit in the air cannonballs, as if the aircraft launch rockets, more interesting. Large kites up to 10 meters high, more than 3 meters in diameter, weighing more than 20 pounds, more than a dozen people to pull the run, take five or six winds to the sky. The longest "Longli kite", up to 30 meters long, from 100 to 200 small bamboo circles with colored paper string, circle on both sides of the broomstick branch, like a centipede, put on the sky after the stretching and shrinking, swaying left and right, the shape of the God Bibi playful. The Lingzhi kites have been recognized as one of the ten best kites in the world.
Chongqing
April 4, 2015, Chongqing Wulong 2015 International Kite Flying Festival opened, the world's longest kite appeared to hold a flying show. According to reports, the event was attended by 13 teams from 13 countries, including New Zealand, Canada, Britain, Italy, Sweden, Germany, Austria, South Africa, the United States, Australia, South Korea, Malaysia and China. Professionals held a live performance of flying the world's longest kite (6,000 meters), far exceeding the Guinness World Record of 5,000 meters. The kite is made up of 2,000 pieces of leaves printed with the "Chinese Dream", and it takes 6-8 hours to fly all of them into the air. The picture shows the opening of the International Kite Festival, where the world's longest kite, measuring 6,000 meters, was flown. USA
In the United States, the International Kite Festival is called the Kite Festival. The festival is organized by the National Kite Association in turn with the state kite associations, once a year, the specific time is not fixed, generally to determine the time of the appropriate time of year in the place where the festival is held.
The festival is organized by the states to send invitations to countries all over the world, and there are several or a dozen national and regional kite teams participating in each festival.
The United States has a large contingent of kite enthusiasts, with more than 150 million kites sold annually, and tens of thousands of people attending international kite festivals each year.
Local kite festivals are held at the same time as all kinds of festivities.
The cities with more active kite activities across the United States are New York, Boston, Washington, Seattle and so on.
Seattle is a famous kite city in the United States, where the National Space Museum is located. The museum exhibits kites and models of the earliest airplanes from various countries, attracting many tourists.
Thailand
Kite flying has a long history in Thailand, and the Thai people have always taken it as a symbol that it will fly to the heaven full of people's dreams and hopes as well as exquisite handicrafts.
The kite-flying season is usually from February to May every year, and Bangkok's Wangjatian Square and Pramani Place are the traditional centers of kite-flying, where people who like to fly kites will naturally gather.
It is documented that Thais have reveled in the fun of kite flying since ancient times. In some famous temples and monasteries, one can see a number of murals depicting ancient customs, among which there are chapters on kite flying. Kite flying has been practiced in almost every dynasty in Thailand's history, and during the Ayutthaya Dynasty, it was even forbidden by decree to fly kites over the royal palace. In some history books, kites were even used as a means of transportation and a weapon of war. When you see a beautiful and colorful kite flying in the blue sky, you must be sure that the Thai people are really good at making and mastering this skill. Not only that, Thai people have also developed kite flying into a sport by forming their own kite flying teams, setting detailed rules for the competition and holding regular kite flying competitions under the patronage of the King of Thailand's Sports Association.
Kite racing, or kite fighting as it can also be called, requires specialized skills and strategies. In a kite race, the timing, skill of maneuvering, mastery of strength and utilization of wind direction are important factors in determining the winner. At the same time the skill of the operators, especially the captains of the two sides in the field and in commanding, is also very important. In the early days of the Bangkok dynasty, many years ago, there were records of kites made especially for competitions, such as a Chula kite in the shape of a five-pointed star, which flew very gracefully despite its huge size. It takes a lot of experience and skill to make the ideal kite, and it takes a lot of calculation to make it. The kite that fights with the Jura kite is called the Pa-Toru kite, which is a diamond-shaped kite with a long tail, and is small in size but very strong in battle.
In a kite competition, the small parabolic kite will challenge the mighty chura, first drawing it to the other side, and then pulling it down as it enters its trap and becomes entangled in it. Many Pa Tosses will also team up **** together to take on a single Chula. Generally speaking, a Jura kite can easily defeat a smaller parabolic kite, but more often than not, it will be entangled in one or more parabolic kites and lose its balance, falling headlong.
Maya
November 1 is the annual Mayan kite festival. It is a form of Mayan mourning for the dead. They fly kites in the grass by graves filled with flowers and wreaths made of pine and cypress to memorialize their departed loved ones. During the kite festival, young unmarried men and women take the opportunity to pick out the person of their choice. During the kite festival, the usual ban on casual relationships between men and women in the tribe is temporarily lifted, and young men and women take advantage of this opportunity to meet, fall in love, and engage in relationships. The festival is usually held for two consecutive days.
Japan
Japanese kite festivals are very traditional, with kites of all sizes, the key being that many of the kites are printed with the most traditional Japanese national designs.