Tianjin kite

Tianjin folk art treasures, together with clay figurine Zhang Caisu, Yangliuqing New Year pictures and Tianjin carpets, are called "Tianjin Four Arts". It has a history of more than 100 years, using high-grade silk, pure paper and high-grade bamboo as raw materials. With the contrast of cold and warm colors as the coloring technique, the workmanship is fine, the modeling is realistic and the flight is smooth. He also created more than 200 kinds of kites, such as flat, bow, string and pocket, and won the gold medal at the Panama World Expo in 1914, and was known as "Kite Wei". The "Dunhuang" brand kite, which inherited Wei Yuantai's traditional Tianjin arts and crafts, won the Silver Cup Award, the highest kite award in the National Hundred Flowers Award in 1914. Nowadays, there are many kinds of kites in Tianjin, the largest of which is more than 100 meters long, and the smallest can be put into an envelope. They are all stacked, which is convenient for traveling and carrying. They can fly in the clear sky and be placed indoors for viewing.
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