Kite is an old handicraft by folklore. Flying kites is a traditional entertainment activity. Besides this function, the reasons why people are deeply fond of the kites come to keeping fit. It is a beneficial activity, which can intensify your physical strength, brain, sentiment and feelings
　　People usually keep themselves in a dynamic state while flying kites, which help exercise legs, arms, necks, waist and so on. The two hands ought to pull lines continuously, considering left and right. Sometimes you need to pull lines urgently and sometimes expand lines slowly, managing the balance of kites. These acts have good therapy for curing periarthritis humeroscapularis and cervical spondylopathy. The movement of kites in the sky help improve myopia and amblyopia.
　　Flying kites can not only intensify the body to prevent illness, but also cure medical illnesses directly. In recent years, several countries, like Europe, America, and Australia, have set up “ Kite Hospital”, “Kite Therapy Hospital”, and “Kite Therapy” to cure neurasthenic, nerve depression, intelligent scarity? for children, sight letdown and have obtained good effect.

4 The Process of Making of Kites

　　To make a kite, you have to undergo ten procedures, namely, design, choose materials, make backbones, paste, paint, tentative flying and so on. The chief process, which are usually termed as “The Four Art of Kites”,? can be generalized as four parts: make, paste, paint and fly.
　　 Make Making backbones lay solid foundation for making a kite. Generally speaking, it can be divided into choosing materials, processing, and further making.
　　Choosing materials: Bamboos, which are tangible, light, easy to bend and make any forms, are often adopted for making a kite.
　　Processing: Take bamboos for example. Generally speaking, there are five procedures: choose materials for bamboos, break bamboos, chop bamboos into bars, make improvements on the bars and bend them to a set form. You need to choose bamboos with long distance between two burls, strong tenacity, non-moth-eaten, dryness exceeding one year. Break bamboos should be accorded with the size of the kites and the requirements of each part to make careful improvements. The tools for chopping bamboos are usually knives and other sharp tools.
　　Further making: Two methods are usually used: pressing head and buttoning head.
　　Paste
　　After finishing the backbone, then comes the act of pasting colors on it. Southern kite craftsman call it “veiling face” while it is termed as “paste” in the north.
　　The materials for pasting the kites ought to be tangible and in tenacity. The methods to veil kites are decided by the categories of kites. To paste kites, fist paste then paint, vice versa. The designs of kites are usually symmetry. In order to make designs more coherent, you had better paste first and paint later.
　　Paint
　　How to paint the kites has been regarded as a comprehensive representation of each techniques. Kites inside the room as well as flying outside are both a nice picture. The purpose of paint colors and make designs is to better express content of the subject and intensify the aesthetical feeling of forms. Thus, the technique on color is also an important part in making kites.