Qingming festival

The 60-year-old Yang Liping in Beijing is an inheritor of the kite making craft.Recently, ECNS visited Yang to find out what goes into the skill-tested craft. " ...

What we need is the skin, which we bake in fire to make it tougher," Yang said. We dry it for three to five years in the shade. In Yang's eyes, children now prefer to play with electronic products and thus neglect traditional handicrafts. In 2003, Yang quit his job and became an apprentice to Fei. In north China, swallows indicate the arrival of spring. Making a swallow kite by hand is no easy task.