How were ancient bows and arrows of such good quality made?

The bow and arrow is an ancient weapon. A kind of powerful and long-range long-range weapon. The bow consists of an elastic bow arm and a resilient bowstring; arrows include arrowheads, arrow shafts and arrow feathers. The arrowheads are made of copper or iron (modern arrowheads are mostly alloy), the shafts are bamboo or wood (modern mostly pure carbon or aluminum alloy), and the feathers are eagles, hawks or geese feathers. It is one of the important weapons used by the army and hunters.

The invention of the bow and arrow is very ancient, long before the emergence of countries and nations.

The bow and arrow is a great invention of the late Paleolithic or early Neolithic period. Initially it was mainly used to shoot birds and animals to get food, and later to shoot people, known as a tool for fighting and war.

Contemporary sports, bows and crossbows, generally use extremely elastic metal materials or carbon fiber to make bows, arrow shafts are also mostly made of carbon fiber materials, but in ancient times, there is no such materials. So in ancient times, how are bows and arrows made, and the quality is still so good.

"Kaogongji" that the production of bows to dry, horn, tendons, glue, silk, lacquer, collectively known as ? are important.

1. Horn, buffalo horn and other suitable for bow animal horn as the main material, horn wood composite bow, is in the excellent elasticity of the timber commercial glue paste horn material to increase the elasticity, durable.

2. Mostly use the better texture of hemp rope or strengthened silk. Silk? According to the "Kao Gong Ji", choose the silk must be brightly colored, as in water.

3. Arrow shafts are mostly made of thin bamboo poles, and some varieties of bamboo are especially suitable for making arrow shafts, such as arrow bamboo. In Europe, where bamboo is not readily available, hardwood is used to make arrow shafts.

4. Lacquer? The bow arm is lacquered to protect it from frost, dew and humidity. Generally every ten days on the lacquer, until it can play a role in protecting the bow arm.

5. Tendon?

5. Tendons, that is, the tendons of the animal, affixed to the outer side (back) of the bow arm. Tendons and horns are used to enhance the elasticity of the bow arm, so that the arrow is shot more vigorously and more y. According to the Kaogongji, ox tendons are the most commonly used ? Six materials?

Now far from ancient that will be used frequently as a major weapon, for like modern bow sports, really good.