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Flat kites are
constructed within a single plane, and are made of
a complete rigid bamboo frame. All (four) sides of
the frame or of the frame segements are limited by
bamboo spars.
These kites are very easy to fly. Most of them are
flown with long tails to grant a stable in-flight
behaviour. Flat kites are build in many forms and
types, very often with pictorial motives from
ancient myths and religious ideas, very ofthen
with a picture of the Yin-Yang
symbol. The number of kite edges is often
derived from the number four
as a luck promising numeral. An example is
the kite with two by four edges, therefore named
"Eight-Oraclediagram-Kite" (cf. kites 3001 -
3004), referring to the numeral
"eight" and the eight
trigrams or "BaGua".
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the example in detail !
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