China is not the only one with a history of Kite Flying.
The Ancient Tradition of Taiwanese Wind Art is flooding the World with its Beautiful and Classic Kites. The skies are being filled with bright coloured, and often intimidating kites, held and maneuvered by 12 year old boys and girls.
Taiwanese Kites are good at soft-winged structure. The two goals in Taiwanese Wind Art is first, to replicate the shape of things found in nature and two, to simulate the movement of those things. The result is a beautiful kite flying experience.
Two that my wife and I came across recently are the Taiwanese Dancing Dragon and the Taiwanese 3D Dragon.
The Dancing Dragon is 38ft of Flying Wonder! It glides through the sky with its soft but imposing tail and sweeps high and low like a bird on the wing. The 3D Dragon is something else. It's intimidating. With a 2 metre wing span and its three dimensional body, it's both unexpected and beautiful.
For those who enjoy a fast and zippy kite there is, what turns out to be, one of the most popular of all kites available in Australia: "Bright Eyes". We understand the attraction, it's just plain beautiful, and yet so easy to fly. We have found these kites to be sturdy, yet the light weight fiberglass and carbon fiber used - and the Rip Stop Nylon - means you have a high quality kite.
Though many Kite manufacturers have tried to reproduce the style and structure of the Taiwanese Kite, none have really come close to the original. If you ever go to Taiwan, whip over to the International Taipai Kite festival and see kite flying at its most stunning.
However, if that's not possible, if you can find one, you should join the craze and buy one!
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