Yang Hongwei was born into a kite-making family in Weifang, Shandong province. When she was young, she often saw kites 3 bright colors and different shapes in her grandfather's workshop.
Yang learned to make kites from her grandfather. After practising the skill for 10 years, she started her own shop in 1992. Yang finds that many places around the world share the habit of flying kites, and the culture behind the kites is(value).
On Yang's kites, people can see some pictures(tell) Chinese stories. For example, she once made a kite showing a phoenix (凤凰) that (paint) with pictures of 50 famous women from Chinese history. Each woman is different from one another. It was big success. They show the characters of our Chinese people. She(develop) the way of painting Chinese New Year on kites since two years ago.
(create) the characters, Yang spent lots of time reading history books and talkingabout the stories with experts.
Yang enjoys travelling to different countries to tell people stories of Chinese kites. She also shares the traditional ways they use to make the kites.
Now, Weifang is known as one of the (large) kite-producing areas in our country. Yang thinks that it is very important for (we) to spread our heritage (遗产) around the world and on to the next generation.
