The longest airborne kite was 6,000 meters long.
They're relatively easy to fly.Īnother account is of an army general who used kites with harps fitted to them to fly across enemy camps the wailing sounds of the harp in the sky made the enemies flee. Hard-winged kites usually represent winged animals, from insects to birds, while soft-winged kites have rigid upper rims only, allowing the material on the lower section of the kite to flow along with the wind.įlat kites, the ones that we are more familiar with in the West, are the simple diamond or square-shaped beginners kites.
Centipede kites are the quintessential, iconic, and immensely popular kite forms used in China, with their complex design they look like centipedes but with a dragon's head.
