Sunday, May 3, 2009

kite festival




Today, I went to a kite festival which is one of the most common semi-civil activities in Nanjing even China with Kevin.
Flying kite used to be one of the most important even in China. People usually fly kites in spring. A famous modern time writer Lu Xun also wrote a prose named kite. There is a sentence in this article says: Kites are children’s toys, toys are children’s treasures. I used to think it is really silly and baffling, but I realized that I have totally already understood the meaning of the entire sentence, when I saw these children’s cheerful smiling face in the hot wind of early summer.
Kite Flying festival were organized almost ever weekends from early spring to the late fall. Every weekend with big winds, people who live near this park likes flying kites will take their favorite kite to this place not only having fun, but also have a competition sometimes. The winner for this week is a lean old man who looked had glory in the past. His entire arm, especially the right one didn’t looks strong, but it does was very powerful. It was powerful enough to hold the string which I was hardly to hold easily and controlled the way the kite went with noticed the direction of the wind, just like the sailor who takes care of the sail in a ship.
The festival is not very long. It started when the sun turned to orange, and ended when the sun hided himself behind the horizon.

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