风筝乃中国人所发明。据传,第一只风筝是距今2400多年前木匠鲁班受鹞鹰盘旋启发,“削竹为鹊,成而飞之”的。古代没有纸,制风筝多用薄木片,称“木鸢”。汉代发明造纸术后,纸糊风筝始盛行,谓“纸鸢”。五代时李邺“在鸢首,以竹为笛,使风入竹,声如筝鸣”,才改曰“风筝”。风筝不但是游戏工具,且在军事、政治、科学史上立下汗马功劳。2000多年前,我们祖先已曾用风筝“载人载物,超险阻而飞达,越川泽 Kites invented by Chinese. According to legend, the first kite is more than 2,400 years ago, carpenter Luban eagle inspired by the spiral, “cut bamboo as the magpie, into a flying”. Ancient no paper, kites and more use of thin wood chips, called “wood kite.” After the invention of papermaking in the Han Dynasty, the paper kite was prevailing, which meant “paper kite”. The Five Dynasties, Li Kui “in the kite first, bamboo flute, the wind into the bamboo, sound such as Zheng Ming,” only changed “kite.” Kite not only is a game tool, and in the military, political, science history made a lottery. More than 2,000 years ago, our ancestors had used kites "