馬中國际風箏交流會 Melaka Kites Festival 2019

Kites are built in different shapes and sizes by a group of senior kite-flyers from China and they assembled on the sands of Pulau Melaka before sunset.

Colorful kites are shown to the public last Saturday in the night sky when, the Kota Melaka parliamentarian, YB Khoo Poay Tiong visited these kite-flyers after the maghrib prayer.

There are miniature kites less than a foot in length and giant kites almost ten or more feet long and these kites-flyers are interested in kites simply for the fun of flying them, though some kites are designed to serve a purpose, for example to make arts alive. 

Overheard a secret of living well and it goes like this, " We've been flying kites from young and it is a very interesting hobby involving calmness in judging the patterns of the winds. Indulging in kites-flying, we get happiness and this is why we keep flying though we are now senior citizen. " 

The 30 meters long dragon is one example of crafting arts for the sky when it was flown last Sunday.

Have you ever wonder what keeps a kite up in the air?

Kite is light and spread out wide. It has a large surface for the air to hold up and air above the earth is always moving thus forcing kites to float.

The kite-flyers are skillful and they could judge the wind flow so that kites are maneuvered to be slanted to the wind in the proper way, to let the pressure of the wind forces kites to rise.

When the wind pressure is not strong enough o make the kite rise, the kite-flyers run with it and they pulled the surface against the wind. This increase the pressure and raises the kite

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The graceful flight of the kites, catches they eyes of many spectators and the kite that resemble the dragon is amazing as it glides in mid-air.

Pulau Melaka is fast becoming a future modern leisures.

Last but not least, YB Khoo Poay Tiong wishes these Chinese Kites-Flyers, A Happy 70th China National Day.