The windmill is made as follows:

1. First, prepare paper, big head pins, pens and scissors.

2, fold the four corners of the square paper and the opposite corner to get two diagonal lines.

3, with scissors along the four corners of the diagonal to the center of the cut, but do not cut to the center, are from the center of a centimeter place to stop.

4. Now the square is divided into four triangles.

5, fold the left corner of each triangle to the center, one corner pressing one corner.

6. Pass a large head pin through the four corners in the center.

7. Tie the tacks through the back again.

8. Stick the large head pin inside a pencil and use the pencil as a pole for the pinwheel.

9. Wave the windmill with your hand and it spins.

Human beings have been using windmills for more than 3,000 years. The world's earliest invention and use of the windmill country to count the ancient Greek, in the Chinese folk traditional culture, the windmill represents the festive and auspicious, meaning that the four seasons to keep the peace. In Chinese folk culture, windmills represent joy and good luck, and symbolize peace in all seasons. In China, there is a proverb that says, "When the windmill turns, happiness comes". Windmills represent bravery, diligence, enterprise, loyalty, joy, spirituality and love.

Ancient windmills, developed from sails, had 6 to 8 canopies like sailing ships, distributed around a vertical axis, and rotated around the axis when the wind blew like a walking lantern, called a walking lantern windmill. This windmill due to lower efficiency, has been gradually replaced by a horizontal rotation axis of the wooden canopy windmill and other windmills, such as "vertical windmill", "automatic rotor windmill" and so on.