In the centuries following Gong Shuban’s invention, kits were put to may other military uses. One famous Chinese general had a large wooden kite built to carry a man over the enemy came. This man’s mission was to play songs on a flute-songs that would make the enemy soldiers homesick and thus destroy their will to fight. Other military uses included signaling, carrying messages and measuring distances. Later, the emperors used kites for their own pleasure. Before long, even peasants were flying kites, especially at festivals.