Kite was invented by the ancient working people in the spring and Autumn period of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. It has been more than 2000 years. It is said that mozhai made wooden birds from wood and developed them for three years. It is the earliest origin of kites. Later, Luban used bamboo to improve the material of Mozi's kite. It was not until the Eastern Han Dynasty when Cai Lun improved his papermaking skills that people began to use paper to make kites, known as "paper kites".

    In the northern and Southern Dynasties, kites began to become a tool for transmitting information; Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, due to the development of paper industry, people began to paste kites with paper; In the Song Dynasty, kite flying became a favorite outdoor activity. Song people wrote carefully in the old stories of Wulin: "during the Qingming Festival, people go to the suburbs to blow kites and return at dusk." Kite means kite. There are vivid scenes of flying kites in the picture of the river during the Qingming Festival by Zhang Zeduan of the Northern Song Dynasty and the picture of hundreds of children by Su Hanchen of the Song Dynasty.

    According to the Tongzhou chronicle of the Qing Dynasty, "the wind kite comes from Rugao". Rugao, together with Beijing, Tianjin and Weifang, is known as the four major kite producing areas in China. It is mainly characterized by live kite and board kite. Folding kite and combined sound kite are the first in China. According to folklore, in Rugao during the Three Kingdoms period, someone used a kite to send a message to Ma lvdai, the great Sisi of Soochow. The "Oriental Shakespeare", born and raised in Rugao, and Li Yu, a great dramatist and health preservation artist in the Qing Dynasty, has a work called "kite mistake", which tells a romantic story caused by kites and is widely spread.

    In order to better display the characteristic culture of Rugao, Rugao museum now brings the famous intangible cultural heritage "Guo's kite" into the audience's vision, so that the audience can really feel the charm of traditional culture“ Guo's kite is one of the most important kites of Ru Pai. Its founder Guo Wenhe, whose works have won many awards, has been exhibited at home and abroad, causing great repercussions. Nowadays, dozens of Guo kites and lanterns made by Guo chengkai and Shan Feng, inheritors of Rugao intangible cultural heritage and inheritors of Guo kites, can be divided into soft winged kites and hard winged kites. In terms of shape, they are mainly divided into birds and insects, including swallow, eagle, crane, butterflies, goldfish Cicadas and so on, all of them are colorful, vivid and interesting. There are also three unique board kite kites, which sound like a bell when flying, which is pleasing to the eyes. The lamp colors mainly include plant lamp colors, animal lamp colors, animated character lamp colors, etc. each lamp color has a distinct personality and shows the superb traditional skills of Rugao and the charm of traditional art and culture.

    Exhibition time: October 16, 2017 - November 30, 2017
    Venue: Hai'an County Museum