Kite history.
Kites were orginally created in China. They were created more then 2000 years ago. The creator of kites was Mo Zi, a Chinese Philosopher. The first kite was a wooden hawk. He passed down the kite to his disciple, Gongshu Ban. Gongshu Ban ended up building a kite by spliting bamboo clippers into thin strips, polished them, curved them through heating over a fire and shaped them into the form of a magpie. http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~et3m-tkkw/history1.html