Weifang Radio and Television New Media News Bamboo as bone and paper as meat is the most basic material for making traditional kites that people know. In Weifang, there is such a kite craftsman, who once used his own soft kite to create a Guinness World Record for flying 43 kites at the same time. This year's Weifang International Kite Carnival, Ma Qinghua and his soft kite will bring what kind of wonder, let's take a look.
Ma Qinghua, the representative inheritor of the fifth batch of municipal intangible cultural heritage "kite making skills" project in Qingzhou City, has learned from foreign kite styles to innovate and produce more technical, cheaper and portable soft kites, which have won many awards in various kite competitions at home and abroad. At this year's Weifang International Kite Carnival, Ma Qinghua will bring his classic work - giant soft kite, and then go to the flying appointment.
"This competition made a 480-square-meter trilobite, 20 meters wide, 24 meters high, and its total length is 70 meters, so it is more spectacular and shocking. When the wind is at level 2 to 3, 10 people can put it up. Ma Qinghua told reporters.
Because soft kites have no skeleton, the requirements for wind power are particularly demanding when flying, but natural wind is uncontrollable, and in many cases successful release depends on luck. To this end, Ma Qinghua has developed the "five-corner hole" kite after many improvements, which is stronger than the foreign "four-corner hole" kite, and can resist wind and pressure, realizing "first-level wind energy flying, seventh-level wind does not fall".
Ma Qinghua said: "There are air inlets and air outlets, let the wind in, and you have to call it out." Small wind can drive around, strong wind can also disperse wind, which is the most difficult soft kite making, this kite overcomes this difficulty. In the design of the "trilobite" giant soft kite, Ma Qinghua reduced the original 6 traction wires to 3. Although the quantity has been subtracted, the work as a whole can better withstand the wind pressure and complete the release activity of windy weather.
Ma Qinghua said that participating in this Weifang International Kite Carnival, on the one hand, is to show the production skills of our soft kites, so that tourists can understand that our Weifang kites not only have inheritance, but also continuous innovation. The development of our Weifang is like this kite, which is changing with each passing day and is getting better and better.
Weifang Radio and Television Station
Reporter: Hao Peng, Zhang Ruoxuan (Qingzhou)