Ancient bows were not powerful

"Ancient bows were not powerful" is wrong, the ancient bow was a powerful, long-range weapon.

The bow consists of an elastic arm and a resilient bowstring; the arrow consists of an arrowhead, an arrow shaft and an arrow feather. Arrowheads are made of copper or iron (modern arrowheads are mostly alloy), shafts are made of bamboo or wood (modern ones are mostly pure carbon or aluminum alloy), and feathers are those of eagles, hawks, or geese, which are one of the most important weapons used by armies and hunters. The ancient bow was a powerful, long-range, long-range weapon.

In the Cold War era, the bow and arrow were the most formidable and deadly weapons. The emergence of the bow and arrow may go back to the distant mythological era. The legend of Hou Yi shooting nine obsidians has always been popular, and it is the most effective advertisement about the power of the bow and arrow.

After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the Turkic bows used in the Ming Dynasty were abandoned and replaced by heavy bows and long arrows with armor-piercing capabilities. The bows used by the Qing Dynasty were developed from the previous generation's bows, which were 1,000 years old. These bows had a high pulling power of 70 kilograms or more and a long bow of 1.8 meters.

Categorization of bows

The bows are ox-horn bows, composite bows and pulley bows, the latter two are made of modern materials and are generally used as tournament implements. The ox horn bow is the pinnacle of the ancient Chinese bow and arrow, and is no less important than bows made from modern materials. The bow is made of cow horn, bamboo and wood tires, cow tendons, animal glue and other materials processed through a hundred procedures, high technical difficulty, long production cycle, but can not be preserved for a long time, the longest can be preserved for a hundred years. As an important weapon in ancient warfare, the bow and arrow were eventually eliminated by guns, and the traditional bow and arrow culture has since become history.

British Pete Riefes, according to the construction of the bow body, distinguishes the bows of the world's various nationalities into three kinds: the single bow, the reinforced bow (also known as the synthetic bow, the backing bow, or the laminated bow), and the composite bow. The general evolutionary path of bow making is from monobloc to reinforced to composite. In East Asia, West Asia and the Eurasian steppe region, all follow this order of development, of course, there are exceptions, most of Europe on the long-term use of monobloc bows.

The mono bow is represented by the English longbow. Compound bows are represented by the West Asian triangular bow and the double recurve compound bow, the latter because the ancient Scythians introduced into Europe around the seventh century BC, the ancient Romans called the "Scythian bow", the name has been used until the modern era. In China, the double recurve composite bow was invented as early as in the late Shang Dynasty in the second millennium B.C., on the basis of a large number of reinforced bows, and it began to become the main body of the military bow equipment in the Warring States period.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Bow and Arrow