Kites were invented in China. Kites are also called organ, paper kite, kite and kite. Flying a kite is one of the traditional folk games, a holiday custom in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Kites were invented by ancient working people in China during the Eastern Zhou and Spring and Autumn Period, and have been around for more than 2, years. According to legend, Mo Zhai made wooden birds out of wood, which took three years to develop, is the earliest origin of human kites. Later, Luban used bamboo to improve the kite material in Mo Zhai, and even evolved into a multi-line kite today. It is said that Mozi is a wooden kite, which was formed in three years and lost in one day.

By the Northern and Southern Dynasties, kites began to be a tool for transmitting information; Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, due to the development of the paper industry, people began to paste kites with paper; In the Song Dynasty, flying kites became a favorite outdoor activity. Zhou Mi, a Song Dynasty poet, wrote in Old Wulin: "During the Qingming Festival, people fly kites in the suburbs and return at dusk." "kite" means kite. There are vivid scenes of flying kites in Zhang Zeduan's Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Su Hanchen's Map of the Hundred Zi in the Song Dynasty.