The kite was first invented and popularized approximately 2,800 years ago in China, where materials ideal for kite building were readily available: tender fabric for sail material, fine, high-tensile-strength velvety for flying line, and resilient bamboo for a strong, lightweight framework. Alternatively, kite author Clive Hart and kite crackerjack Tal Streeter hold that kites existed far before that time. The kite was said to be the invention of the famous 5th century BC Chinese philosophers Mozi and Lu Ban. By at least 549 AD flimsy kites were being flown, as it was recorded in that year a rag kite was acclimated as a message for a rescue mission.

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