风筝城潍坊

Weifanag,A Kite City

潍坊风筝博物馆 山东潍坊,是一座以风筝闻名于世界的城市,自一九八四年举办了第一届国际风筝节以来,又成功地举办多届,国内外影响很大.国际风筝联合会的总部就设在潍坊.

Weifang in Shandong Province is well known in the worldfor its kites. Since 1984, she has hosted the InternationalKite Festival for several times with a far-reaching effectboth at home and abroad. The Headquarter of the Interna-tional Kite Association is located in the city.In the kite city lies the largest museum in the world,occupying an area of 13 thousand square meters. Themuseum has collected all the prize-winning works at differ-ent kite festivals, excellent kites made by the local kite-lovers and kites from all parts of the world.The museum is a building with distinguishing features,shaped like a typical Weifang dragon-head and centipede-body kite, with a magnificent porcelain dragon on the roof.When observed from a distance, it looks like a dragon readyto fly upwards. The kite museum is a treasure-house in thekite kingdom Weifang. The collections in the museum arerenewed every year to guarantee that the kites collected anddisplayed are the newest and best.Tying and painting are the two major steps in making a kiteIn Weifang there are many kite makers, yet those who aregood at both skills are only a few, among whom sixty-year-old Lang Xianzhong is a representative figure. Lang is notonly good at both skills but also has admirable moralqualities. He takes kite-making as his artistic pursuits. Hewon the first prize of the hard-wing kites at the first Interna-tional Kite Festival and won prizes at the 6th and 7thfestivals as well.Yangjiabu is a well-known kite-production place, with kiteshops everywhere around the village. There is a kite-manu-facturing factory in the Yan幻iabu Folk Custom and CultureVillage in which almost all the kite-makers are girls. Thewhole factory including the tying workshop and the paintingworkshop is open to the outside......Weifang is well-known for its kite, which in turn makesWeifang a beautiful city