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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.
Weifang International is an annual international kite festival, generally scheduled for April 20 every year
World Kite Capital Memorial Square, Weifang, Shandong Province.
To the 25th in the kite capital of Weifang held. 1984 held the first Weifang Kite Festival since, attracting a large number of Chinese and foreign kite experts and enthusiasts and tourists to come to watch, competition and excursions. 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, numerous 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 have professional aerial kite performances, but also more than 20 groups of giant kites over 2 meters and thousands of kites from all over the country with different shapes and colors of different cultures, so that the tourists can learn about China's kite culture and history while visiting the festival.
Mulan Grassland Kite Festival
It is the only AAAA Mongolian style scenic spot in central China, located in Niejiagang, Wangjiahe Street, Huangpi District, Wuhan, on the east side of Mulan Mountain, a famous mountain in Jingchu, and on the south side of Mulan Lake, one of the top ten recreational resorts in Hubei. 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 asymmetrical 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 are fluttering in the wind and are very lifelike.