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Q: How were the Chinese kites different than the kites we have now?
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How do Chinese use kites?

just for fun! it usedd to be for military purposes but now just for fun


How do Chinese use kites nowadays?

The materials of the traditional Chinese kites are mainly bamboo and silk. Purely made and painted by hand. Inheriting Chinese traditional crafts of kites, made by folk artisans from all over China. each kite was made with fine-selected material and excellent handicrafts. Each of them has been adjusted by kite experts, so they can fly high and steadily.


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What influenced them to make the kite?

What influenced them to make the kite was for the protection of acient villages in China. Now in our society today Kites are for fun, in fact they are becoming hobbies now.


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Do all kites need a tail to help them fly?

No, some kites fly badly with a tail. The tail add stability to a badly balanced kite but it also adds weight so can drag a gently pulling kite down. Unless a kite is homemade or asymetric in design it should be well balanced. As most kites are now mass produced and quite accurate people mostly use them to look pretty! A few kites (Sodi's) have rope tails to add weight at the base and produce the correct angle of attact to the wind. A looped tail made from a single piece of fabric and attached at two points on the base of the kite is used on some kites such as smaller sleds to add to the lift. Kites such as box kites and tetrahedral kites are stable without tails. The most common kite requiring a tail is the flat diamond kite.


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Nothing