Kite is popular with Beijingers, the kites are a kind of entertaining handcraft. His master used to make kites for the emperors when the feudal government was overturned, he had no choice.So he poor and had to leave the imperial palace. It was not like the old days like he made kites for the emperor.Thus , the master utilized woks that people used to cook food with firewood to scrape the soot from the bottom of woks. Then use it to mix up the soot with peach gum to get a kind of black pigment. He use these kind of pigmnet to paint kites, these kind of kite keep it to now a days.
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