After February is March. Of the twelve months of the lunar calendar, my favorite is March. In March, the grass is long and the warblers are flying, the willows are green and red, and the scenery is particularly good. Moreover, in March, spring is harmonious, the wind is harmonious, and it is a good time to fly kites.
When it comes to kites, I always think of some old things about flying kites. Kites originated from the Spring and Autumn Period, initially wooden, after the invention of papermaking in the Han Dynasty, began to use paper to frame kites, and since then there have been the names of paper kites and paper flowers. Kites flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties, and reached their peak in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but in my youth, it was still a folk custom that was popular in the countryside.
I love kites. I remember that at that time, there were no kites sold on the street, and kites were all made by themselves. Kite tying is a technical activity. Prepare the materials first, bamboo strips, paper, paste, twine, wire wheel, the same can not be less. At that time, people were poor, and although the kite material was not expensive, it was not easy to find, especially the bamboo slab bamboo strips that made the kite skeleton. My family lives in the north, bamboo is extremely rare, in addition to bamboo curtains, mosquito net poles, bamboo chopsticks, rarely have excess bamboo products. In order to tie the kite, no one is willing to steal the "bamboo utensils" at home, causing a violent beating from the parents. Fortunately, my family does not have your family, there are always companions who can find discarded bamboo curtains and other things, and everyone can use them. After tying the skeleton, the next step is to mount the kite. The paper of the paste kite is mostly powder paper, "five-pointed star" and "eight-pointed star" with red pink paper, "little swallow", "little butterfly" and "catfish" with white powder paper, really can not find powder and paper, newspapers and books can be used. The kite line is a nylon line that is bought for someone, this line is strong and durable, do not worry about breaking the line, so that the carefully tied kite flies away. Kite line wheels are not easy to do, and everyone found an alternative way to wrap the kite wire around a wooden stick. To tie a good kite, in addition to these necessary materials, you also need to be skillful. Without a clever mind, without a pair of dexterous hands, the kite will not be praised by everyone. For example, like me, my brain is not sensitive, my fingers are not clever, the kite style is simple, and I don't fly high. My kite is usually the simplest, "red five-star", "little swallow", "catfish head", no technical content, no matter up close, or flying to the sky, in addition to their own feelings good, no one claps their hands, can only be regarded as self-amusement.
A neighbor's kite is good, although the style is also simple, but it can fly high, watch him fly the kite, always worried that the kite will be like a bird in the sky, flying and flying away. However, his kite can be triumphant. He likes to tie "octagonal stars" and "big water shoots", all of them are hunks, all of them are framed with red powder and paper, and the kites are all with bagpipes, which are real kites, unlike the kites we tie, which are silent and dumb. As long as he flew a kite, no kite was eclipsed. This neighbor's skillfulness and cooking skills are our "village banquet chefs" here, and the "sweet and sour carp" he makes is comparable to the "sweet and sour carp" in Huiquan Building, an old restaurant in Jinan. Sadly, this neighbor died of a sudden heart attack on a summer day the year before, and he did not have time to say a word to his family.
The kites that were flown when I was young were extremely simple, mostly "red five-star", "octagonal star", "red carp", "catfish head", "small swallow", "small plane" and the like, can not be compared with the current kite, but whenever I see the kite that I personally tied to the sky, there is always a joy in my heart. The experience of flying kites filled my teenage years with warmth and fun. It's March again. This month is a good time for "paper flowers flying like snow, and delicate women swinging around", flying kites and swinging. The Qing Dynasty poet Guo Lin wrote a bamboo branch poem: "One hundred and four days of small cold food, smelting swims to compete for the White Wave River, paper kites son swing women, chaos is more than the new spring swallow." The sentence "Paper Kite's Son Swing Girl" in the poem says that boys like to fly kites and girls like to swing. Today, there are fewer people flying kites, and the scene of paper kites flying all over the sky is gone. Even when someone is seen flying a kite, it is mostly the elderly and young children. And the kite that is flying, without exception, is a sale, although the appearance is exquisite and gorgeous, but it lacks the strong traditional characteristics and local flavor. Lost the pleasure of hand-tying a paper kite.
When I was young, I was always worried about the kite breaking its line, afraid that it would fly without a trace. Later, after reading Jin Shengsi's "See people kite broken, a happy one", I learned that the ancients invented the kite mainly to remember their deceased relatives, and pinned their thoughts on the kite, which was transmitted to the deceased and sent to their deep remembrance.
One point flower blooms in spring