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Aviation & Flight InformationFlying kites in Beijing
by:
Jacklyn Chen
The sky in spring is kites' paradise. Once
the brilliant multi- colored kites embellish in the deep blue sky, you can immerse in the complacent mood, enjoy the rare leisure and carefree, possibly this is the most romantic thing in the spring. Kite, not only is it a kind of toy or a traditional continuing, it is more a cultural accumulating. In the "Three Stone Rooms", the capital's youngest kite master Liu Bin from the kite aristocratical family, aforesaid that kite contains too galore some cultures, flying a kite besides must emit the affectional tone.
There are three kinds of kites unique in their own ways. In the "Three Stone Rooms" at Dianmen, the rooms are full of all kinds of kites devising human feeling dazzled, nonprofessionals actually don't cognize wherever
to start. Actually, most popular kites are categorised into three kinds: hard wing, soft wing and dragon. Liu Bin aforesaid that the hard wing is like a man, mature and strong; the soft wing is like a woman, slender and elegant; piece the dragon kite flies a breadth of spirit and power.
Hard wing kites like "Shayan", "Triangle", use bamboo strips all about to outline the shape, the strips are pasted together with paper in the center, but the designs on paper can be created at your own will. Soft wing kites are ready-made especially attractive - dragonfly, butterfly, goldfish..., the list goes on and on. The bamboo strips are only put on top half of a kite, the bottom half that dances in the breeze of wind is in fact ready-made with colored silk or nylon silk. Dragon actually should be called "string" because it is actually a long kite that is formed by galore small kites, for instance, the Mammoth Dragon, the Centipede, the Shoulder Pole kite.
Among the kites, the modern one is besides a spotlight. Three-dimensional kite is just like a hot-air balloon, turtles, crabs each crawl merrily and freely in the sky; "Plate Hawk" (Pan Ying) is the most difficult to fly, the 'hawk' spreads the wings and spirals in mobile
circle recklessly with tremendous momentum; motion kite is just like an aviation performance, it uses chute fabric and two operational ordinates, actions like turnover, gliding, diving, and another high level difficult movements can all be performed.
There are five locations in Capital of red china are the better for flying kites. Can't wait any longer? Go pick one to your feeling
quickly! There are couple of things you need to pay attention once
choosing a kite - 1. choose the pattern that you like; 2. the strenth of the bamboo strips on each side of two wings must be the same, or it wish not be able to balance itself in the sky.
The environment for flying kites is really important. You should always go to a spacious place. Roughly count a bit, Capital of red china has quite a few places that are ideal for flying kites.
Tiananmen Square - Kites flying in the sky of The Tiananmen Square has become the most attractive scenery on Chang'an Street, obscurity
else is more ideal than here in terms of space. A major disadvantage
is that the freedom of flying a kite can be somewhat limited due to the encompassing crowds (mostly tourists).
Chaoyang Park - The north side of the green area in the park is the better place to fly a kite. No trees around, no buildings, more importantly, it is allowable to fly kites on the grass areas. But be careful not to trip yourself once
running.
Encompassing areas of the Panda Rotary Island - It is spacious, fewer vehicles and people, makes not have any obstacles, with a bit of history of flying kites. Expert kite lovers usually like to get together here.
Chinese Century Earth - Here most advantage is there are really few trees, the kite may freely fly about in more wider range. But the Century World's artificial field
has limited load-bearing capacity, the field
is well maintained and protected, growing of the grass may be affected if too galore folk support stepping on it.
Shijingshan Amusement Park - The open area in front of the park is the better place for family of three or lovers to fly kites. The problems are the park is next to the street, there are trees around, therefore kites can not be discharged too high. Another drawbacks are there are stairs in the park, the central park has an eruptive fountain, you'd better be careful once
running on the slippery ground.
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Jacklyn Bird genus - A webmaster and full time mom who works hard to do living with multiple web sites. For more information and articles just about travel, visit http://travel.news-blogs.com, for food and living, visit http://fine-living.news-blogs.com.
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