The ancients didn't have rubber slingshots. What materials did they use?

For a slightly older person, a slingshot sweeps away many childhood memories. You can tie a rubber band to a Y-shaped piece of wood and shoot birds and voles in the wild. But the ancients had no rubber. How do they make slingshots and bows?

Slingshot is not just a child's weapon. In fact, the combat power of Journey to the West is almost catching up with Erlang God of the Monkey King, and his killer weapon is the slingshot. Your son's hunting activities, three words and two shots of Cui Guaner, with a "water mill angle target slingshot" travel hunting.

According to the records in ancient books such as "Flower King Gong Ji" and "Tiangong Wu Kai", the bow needs materials such as "stem, horn, glue, tendon, silk and paint", which are obtained from wood, ox horn, tendon and fish intestines, and need to be refined repeatedly to make a good bow.

The principle of making a slingshot that looks like a bow is similar to that of making a bow, but the difference is not so complicated. Children in the village play with bamboo or wood, while Song Huizong's slingshot is made of precious sandalwood.

Besides bowstring, beef tendon and fish intestines are also used to wrap the bow.