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International Kite Festival 2008
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เทศกาลว่าวนานาชาติ 2008 ชะอำ |
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Kite flying is a world popular sport that has evolved over the
decades resulting in changes into modernized patterns and
materials. Nowadays, the features of a kite has a beautifully
bigger structure and adopted modern technology in its
production, which brings in a variety of forms and structures
and methods of flying; as such, it creates a spectacle to the
audience. It is believed that the invention of kite dates back
to 400 B.C. with the purpose of pleasure and certain usefulness.
From an academic chronicle, it was found that a Chinese engineer
named Kungshu Pan (Lu Ban) built a wooden bird, which could fly
in the sky for 3 days; therefore, it was assumed as the world’s
first kite.
In Thailand, kite flying has been long
popular since the Sukhothai and Ayutthaya periods among the
royalty as well as ordinary people. However, the Royal
Household’s law forbade that no one could fly a kite over the
palace; otherwise, punishment by law would be enforced. The
Chula-Pakpao kites were created in the Ayutthaya period and the
competition had been held until the Rattanakhosin period. King
Rama ll was fond of Chula kite fighting with the Pakpao kite of
his brother. Westerners compared the Chula kite as a male and
Pakpao kite as a female, which was similar to the Thai social
value in that period that males dominated female. Kite flying
was also the most popular sport in king Rama IV, kite flying at
Sanam Luang inside the Dusit Palace, and had a kite flying
competition held at Dusit Palace in 1856, where he presided over
himself. In the reign of King Rama VI, kite flying was restored
as a sport and Phraya Phirom PhaKdi organized a kite flying
competition at Sanam Luang. After World was II, the Siam Sport
Club held an annual kite flying competition. |
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Phetchaburi |
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Rama VI Camp, Cha Am District |
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Cha-am |
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Cha-am |
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2 days |
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Free |
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12.699304 N |
99.956704 E |
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