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Historical records show that the first kite was made in the Spring and Autumn Period.
But it was not a pleasure kite. It was a wooden kite made for military purposes. Paper kites appeared later. Kite was called fengzheng in Chinese because in the tenth century, a person named Li Ye fastened a bamboo whistle to a kite. Flying high overhead, the whistle sounded like the zheng, a Chinese musical instrument.