Kite making skills (Beijing kite making skills)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: kite making skills (Beijing kite making skills)

Applicant: Haidian District, Beijing

Project No.: 438

Project No.: VIII - 88

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Beijing

Type: Extension Project

Applicant: Haidian District, Beijing

Protection unit: Shangzhuang folk arts and crafts culture development center, Haidian District, Beijing

Kite making skills (Beijing kite making skills) Introduction:

Applicant: Haidian District, Beijing

Cao's kite craft is a traditional folk craft handed down in Beijing according to the kite atlas and rhyme recorded in the "South kite and North kite kaogong Zhi" of the Qing Dynasty. The book "South kite and North kite kaogong Zhi" summarizes 43 kinds of kite tying and pasting techniques, and summarizes the technological process into four arts: tying, pasting, painting and flying. Kite is used as the carrier to reflect the profound cultural connotation of China, and image aesthetics, personification and patterning are used to reflect the high value of traditional culture.

Cao's kite is made of bamboo, paper, silk, silk and other materials through the process of binding, pasting and painting. The production technology has the characteristics of excellent material selection, exquisite technology, gorgeous color, beautiful shape and so on. It uses the principle of bionics, using a unique "birth" technology to make birds and animals and other kite works, lifelike, reduce the weight of the kite. Cao's kites are novel in style and various in variety. Their contents include: historical allusions, legends, folk customs, simulation and realism, etc.