The story of the origin of archery?

Bow and arrow is a kind of projection weapon. The so-called projectile weapon, as its name implies, is a weapon that can project attack power from a long distance.

From 4600 to 3300 years ago, the word "Yi" similar to the human back bow has been found in the inscriptions of Dongyi bones in Longshan culture period, and "from big to bow" has the original basis.

Bronze swim bladder head in Shang dynasty

Before the establishment of Qi in BC 1045, there was a Dongyi tribe living here. According to experts' research, bows and arrows appeared in China about 28,000 years ago, making it the first country in the world to invent bows and arrows.

Legends about bows and arrows

"Yao was caught and came out in ten days, burning crops and killing vegetation, and the people had no food. Anger, tooth picking, giving birth to nine babies, strong winds, closing the altar and repairing snakes are all human hazards. Yao is the one who killed nine babies in the field of China, killed the fierce spring tree on the water, paid a strong wind to Qingqiu Ze, shot for ten days, killed the snake in Dongting and captured it in the mulberry forest.

-"Huainanzi (Ben Jing Xun)"

According to Wu Yue Chun Qiu, China people first invented the slingshot, and then invented the bow and arrow on the basis of the slingshot. In the Spring and Autumn Period, wuyue said that "crossbows are made of bows, and bows are made of bullets". This means that crossbows are developed from bows, and bows are developed from slingshots. According to the book, in ancient times, people were not buried in coffins like later generations, but wrapped in imperata and thrown into the wild. Their children couldn't bear to let their parents' bodies be bitten by birds and animals, so they made slingshots and guarded them to drive them away.