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 It is said to be of more than 300 years. Its forms consist of hard-winged, soft-winged, row-shaped, long-chained and barrel- shaped kites.
 It was introduced from Beijing. It is rich in expression and bright in general style.
 It is half printed and half painted, and coarse in style but bright in color  It is spread in Chengdu and Mianzhu, Sichuan Province. It is half printed and half painted.
 It is characterized by large size, colourful picture, and whistles. The big hexagon kite is most common.
 It is hung on the occasions of traditional festivals, wedding, birthday party for the sake of cheering up the atmosphere of happiness.
 When it is lighted, the hot air rises to make a paper wheel turn. There appears on the screen of the lamp a dynamic picture.
 It is one of common colourful lamps, on which the paper with flowers, birds and animals on is enshrouded with a layer of yarn. It is popular in the south to Changjiang River.
 It is superstitiously believed that the funerary objects can be brought into the ghostdom and used by the dead. At the very beginning the funerary objects were daily necessities. Since the Song Dynasty, paper funerary objects came into vogue. People make them in the form of furniture and household applicance with bamboo strips, reed and sorghum stalk, and then paste them with coloured paper and decorate them with paper-cut artifacts in order to burn them easily.
 It can be made in the form of figurine, horse, applicance and house and burnt at the funeral to consecrate the dead.The superstitious practice can be traced back to long time ago and has become a trade. Theatrical tales are painted on it, which have nothing to do with the funeral.
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