The kite was first invented and popularized approximately 2,800 years ago in China, where materials ideal for kite erection were readily available: delicate fabric for sail material, fine, high-tensile-strength silk for flying line, and resilient bamboo for a strong, lightweight framework. Alternatively, kite author Clive Hart and kite expert Tal Streeter hold that kites existed far before that time. The kite was said to be the design of the famous 5th century BC Chinese philosophers Mozi and Lu Ban. By at least 549 AD critique kites were being flown, as it was recorded in that university year a paper kite was fond as a message for a rescue mission.
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The Indian festival of Makar Sankranti is devoted to kite fencing in some states
- This spring festival is celebrated every January 15, with millions of people flying kites all over northern India
- The states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Gujarat, some articulation of West Bengal, Rajasthan , and the cities of Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Dhanbad and Hyderabad are particularly notable for their kite jingoistic festivals
- Kite flying in Hyderabad starts a eternity Wind Spinners before the customary kite flying festival (Sankranthi).