风筝-英语简介.ppt

The Origin of Kite Chinese invented the first kite. In ancient time, kite was called “sparrow hawk and also was well known as glede in northern region of China. （古时称为“鹞” yào ，北方称为“鸢” yuān. ） 相传：“墨子为木鹞，三年而成，飞一日而败” In the Spring and Autumn Period in China, there was a philosopher named “ Mo Qu” (478-392 B.C.) in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. He spent three years made a wooden glede that could fly in the air. That wooden glede was the first kite in China and also same in the world. It’s over two thousand and four hundred years from now. 公输班制木鸢以窥宋城 Mo Qu taught his student Lu Ban how to make a kite. Lu Ban inherited his teacher’s skill and created his own design of a bamboo kite. That kite was able to fly in the sky for three days. The historical book “Hong Shu” said, Lu Ban made a kite to spy neighbor Song’s territory for military purpose. How did kite get its name‘Fengzheng’？ According to an ancient books: In the period of Five Dynasties in China, Li Zheng made a kite in imperial palace. A bamboo whistle was tied to a paper kite. It made sound like Zheng (a 21-25 string plucked instrument) while wind passed through. Since then, kites that could not give out sound called “paper glede”, others were called “Feng Zheng” (Feng means wind, Zheng is the music instrument). Song Dynasty artist Zhang Zeduan demonstrated a vividly image of playing kite in the ancient time on his panoramic painting “Along the River During the Qingming Festival”; and Su Hanchen from the same period of time did the same on his painting of “Hundred Kids”. In Tang Dynasty, kite was introduced to Chinas neighboring countries like Korea and Japan. In 13th century, an Italian explorer Marco Polo introduced kite to Europe , and since then, kite was introduced to all over the world. Usage of Kite Initial： Military purpose Measuring distance Locating target Testing wind Sending signal For communications Now: entertainment The categories of kites: Centipede kite Flat- kite Hard-win