Text: Qiu Shi anchor: Xiaoming
The paper kite, also known as the kite, has a history of more than 2,000 years, and in ancient times, kites were widely used in life, scientific research and military.
Many historical sources prove that kites were first used in the military. The Western Han Dynasty general used the length of the line when flying a kite to calculate the distance to Weiyang Palace.
In China's idiom dictionary, there is an idiom is "embattled song", the soldiers of the Chu Bawang were trapped by Liu Bang, in order to disturb the hearts of the army, Liu Bang used a huge kite, took a person to fly over the enemy army, sang a homesickness song, so that the people in the Bawang military camp were scattered, lost their combat effectiveness, and were defeated in one fell swoop, so they deduced the story of "Overlord Farewell" that could be sung and wept, which was praised by posterity. Li Qingzhao once wrote a poem: "Born to be a master, death is also a ghost male." Still thinking about Xiang Yu, he refused to cross Jiangdong. ”
Franklin, a great scientist in the United States, experimented with kites and invented lightning rods. When I was in high school English class, I remember the picture of a steady man with a shiny forehead, sparse hair, and a tuxedo holding a kite. That's franklin doing lightning protection experiments. In ancient or modern history, the principle of kites has been widely used, and the birth of aircraft and spacecraft have come from the principle of kites.
Now the kite has become a tool of entertainment, a carrier of culture, a craft or work of art. When you think of a kite, the first thing you can think of is that the people running with kites in the wilderness are like a picture. China's Song Dynasty is very popular to use kites as the theme to paint, the famous painter Guo Zhongshu of the Northern Song Dynasty is one of the typical representative figures, his kite paintings are unique, vivid and interesting, very cute.
The patterns on the kite are folk, traditional, natural, humanistic, characters, animals, ghosts, gods, stories, legends, all-encompassing. The verses triggered by kites are the soul of kite culture. Zheng Banqiao once wrote a poem "Huaiwei County", which vividly described the scene of flying kites in the Weifang area during the Qingming Dynasty:
Paper flowers fly like snow all over the sky,
The petite swing plays around.
Five-colored luo skirt wind swing,
Good to bring the butterflies back to spring.
I grew up in Weifang, I loved kites since I was a child, it was childish, I just thought it was funny, and now I think it is indeed very beautiful, a beautiful kite, swinging in the sky, with a long tail, like a shadow, a long line from the ground to the sky, pulling a curved bow, and the "kite touch", the so-called "kite touch" is the local vernacular, that is, you can borrow the wind on the kite line with paper to tie the winged birds or insects, such as bees, butterflies, etc. The kite touches along the line from low to high, with a whistle, pounces on the colored kite, after touching the kite, it closes its wings, slides down the harrier line, and returns to the hand, bringing a lot of happiness. I once wrote a poem for kites:
Childhood fun memories,
The paper kites are tied to me.
Father burns the lamp and plucks the hammer line,
Spring day is a dream of heaven.
Looking up at the harrier tail swinging yu ring,
The blue waves under the feet step on the Springfield.
The devil monsters are dancing together,
The boy is carefree like a god.
The kites in Weifang have a long history, and the hometown is Yangjiabu, where there are many kite artists, who tie kites, draw kites, and fly kites. In order to better explore the kite culture and history, I made a special trip to Yangjiabuzi, where there is a piece of traditional Chinese houses, white walls and gray tiles, door towers, door to door, all of which are amazing, And the New Year board painting and kite making are all within these houses. From the outside, it can be described as a large view garden of cultural architecture, and from the inside, it is a temple of art. The kite has four arts, namely the painting of the paste. Seeing those old artists constantly busy making kites, I thought that it was the folk kites they inherited, and it was they who inherited the kite culture. Giving kites with culture, to the peak of the Qing Dynasty, kites gave poets a lot of inspiration, thus producing a number of kite chants.
Qing Fang Yuanhu's "Miscellaneous Songs of Beijing Customs":
The masked mud child is not worth much,
Eryi tried the lantern day again.
Go home and sort out the jute thread,
Put paper kites in the limelight.
Qing Li Shengzhen "Flying a Kite":
Hundred gossamer put paper kites,
Fangjiao 35 before smoking ban.
Kites pity the name is good,
Not as good as Lei Qin Zhang seven strings.
Qing Kong Shangren's "Yanjiu Bamboo Branch Words":
Hakama pleats in children,
Hand-held clues scolded Tiangong.
Everyone praises you for coming early in spring,
Owe me a kite five winds. ”
Qing Yang Shuhua's "Song of Shantang Tong":
Spring clothes call the body nearly clear,
The wind harrier whips everywhere.
Overhearing children clapping their hands,
Pine shoots blow off the beauty kite.
Qing Yang Miren's "Bamboo Branches of Dumen":
The wind kites released thousands of people to see,
A thousand hemp ropes are tied to bamboo poles.
'The world is at peace' new and clever,
A line flew up to the blue clouds.
Qing Gaoding "Kite":
Grass warblers fly on February days,
Whisk the willows drunk with spring smoke.
Children return from school early,
Busy taking advantage of the east wind to release paper kites.
Qing Jiang Changqing's "Chongchuan Bamboo Branch Words":
Kite February test spring wind,
Cut green cut red folder.
Hidden hands on the front line,
The Jade Man is only in the Jinyi.
Another song:
Grass Green Causeway Cape East,
Double butterflies play with cow boys.
Where is the sound of the hulu playing?
Release the red apricots from the forest.
These poems fully demonstrate the scene of flying kites and the historical and cultural connotations of kites.
Now, the culture of this kite is flourishing, kites have also become cultural products collected by people, and more kites are collected by the museum for people to visit. The custom of kites is becoming increasingly indifferent. The pressure of modernization and the process of urbanization have brought the localized and folklorized things to the brink of collapse. People hold what kite culture festival in order to rescue and promote kite folklore. This makes the kite still move from the prosperity of the people to the loneliness of the official grandeur. Become a cultural event that exposes ten colds. The entertainment brought by kites has been far less fast and rich than the computer at hand. But the entertainment of kites is a healthy leisure, an entertainment with a folkloric and national personality. I hope more that modernization and traditionalization, internationalization and nationalization will be combined, and the traditional folk things will be preserved more and people's lives will be more diversified.
Author: Qiu Shi is a member of the Chinese Prose Literature Association and the Shandong Writers Association. He has rich life experience and profound literary skills, observes life with a clear eye, records the beauty with warm brushstrokes, and creates a large number of works with feelings, quality and appeal. He is especially good at the creation of scene descriptions, and his words are as pleasant as the spring spring and as warm as the winter sun.
Recitation: Ma Xiaoming, the gold-medal anchor of oriental charm voices, Baicaoyuan and other online platforms, won the first prize of the 2016 Heilongjiang Poetry Recitation Competition. I hope to use my own voice to interpret the charm of words, feel the true meaning of life, and seek a tranquility in my impetuous life.
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