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  64. 			<h1><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Flying Kites during Qingming<br>
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  71. 							<td><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A grandfather teaches his grandson the finer points of flying a kite.  On a relatively windless day, his was one of the few kites to fly with strength.</font>
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  72. 								<p><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">You can see <a href="http://hua.umf.maine.edu/China/Chinese_kites/index.html" target="_blank">more kites and the art of the kite</a> on another of my pages called 99 Chinese Kites.</font></p>
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  73. 								<p><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Kite flying is a traditional activity during Qingming season.  There are many competitions and demonstrations organized during Qingming for this reason.  This picture was taken at a new kite festival organized in the northeast suburbs of Beijing on the first day of Qingming.  It wasn't very well attended, perhaps because it was new, perhaps because there was very little wind that day.  The most famous festival is held a little later during Qingming in Weifang, Shandong Province.  Weifang, Beijing, and Tianjin are all famous for kite making and design.</font></p>
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