Chinese Kite Festival

The holiday birthland is Weifang, it is verily here the international competitions on kites flowing are to b held. The participants of the festival are nearly 100 thousand people from different countries.

The first kites appeared in China only for military aims. With the help of such entity, people could set the signal, spread agitation nickels, and even send the spy to observe the hostile territory.

The local citizens believe that kite set to the sky takes all the sorrow and illnesses of its master. Today the producing of kites is the true art. They are created in the form of peacocks, bats, butterflies, even cars and buildings. The length of the kite can fluctuate between 10 centimeters and 100 meters, and the cost varies from two to 360 dollars.

In the terms of festival, there are more than dozen great events. It begins with the glorious opening, which at its scale may be compared to the ceremony of Olympian Games start. For five days, the festival guests are due to struggle for the title of kites’ king.

All who wish to do that may attend workshops on kites production, museum, as well as principal business office of this prominent aircraft. For connoisseurs the hospitable Chinese people arrange culinary fair where feast everybody with the local delicacies.