Mysterious Widgets from the Spring and Autumn Period

Mysterious Widgets of Spring and Autumn Period

Bow and arrow shooting is always evolving, the modern bow and arrow has many auxiliary equipment, these equipment can make the shooter as long as the standardized correct shooting training, can be done at a certain distance shooting accuracy, so does such equipment exist in ancient China?

The Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods were characterized by frequent wars and the rapid development of weaponry, with iron weapons slowly being developed from bronze and undergoing major changes. The traditional bow and arrow is also the same, from the single bamboo and wood bow and arrow development to the sinew angle wood composite bow and arrow. Written in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States, the "Kao Gong Ji" recorded: "Where for the bow, winter analysis of dry and spring liquid angle, summer treatment of tendons, the fall combined three materials, the body of the cold, ice analysis of ?????????????????????????????????????????????. Winter analyzes the dry is easy, spring liquid angle is closed, summer treatment tendon is not troublesome, autumn is closed three materials, cold body is open not flow, ice analyzes the ring is a review, spring is strung is a year. Such a passage clearly explains the preparation, season, time and composition of materials for making a bow. This proves that at this time China had already developed a mature composite structure of sinew and hornwood bow and arrow production technology, and since then for thousands of years, the traditional bow and arrow has been such a material structure production technology.

The traditional bow and arrow, if divided according to the performance, the first is definitely the composite traditional bow, the second is the sinew bow, the third is the bamboo and wood laminated bow, and the fourth is the performance of the worst is the mono-bamboo bow or mono-wood bow. According to the author's experience, single bamboo bow, single wooden bow using 30-40 arrows will need to rest the string. Bamboo wood composite bows can do 100 arrows without resting the bowstring. It seems that the sinew angle wood composite bow and arrow is the culmination of the ancient traditional bow making technology.

So, would the traditional bow and arrow have developed as many aids as the modern recurve bow and arrow? In fact, it is almost nonexistent, the ancient people first invented the bow and arrow is to combat hunting, if like the modern recurve bow and arrow to develop a lot of external auxiliary equipment, obviously is impossible. Ancient bowmen need to deal with the situation with the modern recurve bowmen is completely different, modern bowmen only need to rest assured that training, maintenance of shooting equipment, shooting a fixed distance from the target can be, while the ancient bowmen need to face is not the distance, not the shooting environment, and even most of the cases will be moving target.

Of course, ancient archers also practiced by shooting at fixed targets, but they had to face the battlefield where you die and the hunting ground where you get your food. A few years ago, Mr. Xie Sufang from Hong Kong and Mr. Li Junyang from mainland China made a video, asking a competitive recurve practitioner and Mr. Li Junyang, a traditional bow practitioner, to conduct a series of shooting tests, and the competitive recurve bow was far superior to the traditional bow and arrow in the case of a fixed distance and a fixed target, but in the case of an irregular distance, an irregular target, and a moving target, the traditional bow and arrow was far superior to the competitive recurve bow. It seems that the traditional bow and arrow is very favorable in the face of complex shooting environment.

Since we can't add accessories to the bow, can we start from another direction? Of course you can, and you can start with the shooter's trigger finger. We now evaluate a traditional bow practitioner, the first thing is certainly to look at his release of the arrow release action, a good shooter people will say; "Wow, release is really clean!" Do release clean, first of all, the shooter's inner force, release action is certainly very correct, and then is the shooter's trigger finger, can do release dry, that the shooter choose the trigger finger suitable for their own shooting posture, to be able to do release dry.

Archery trigger finger form is a lot of form, there are ancient handed down the form, there are archaeological excavations of the form, there are modern bowmen invented their own form, the same kind of form, there will be different designs. Recently, the author used moose antlers as materials to recover a trigger finger from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods in accordance with the unearthed relics. After a long time of use and testing, the author found that this is actually a kind of structural design of the trigger finger, and even some with the modern archery aids design principles similar to the design of the design, it is very amazing.

The state of Rui was a vassal state during the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period. In recent years, many precious relics of the state of Rui have been unearthed, including an archery trigger finger, which was called decisive ([guài]) during the Spring and Autumn Period, so everyone called it Rui decisive. The trigger finger restored by the author is the Rui decisive unearthed in Rui State.

After using the Rui decisive finger, you will find that the right "ear" of the finger is just enough to hold the arrow shaft. This ensures that the angle of the decisive hook on the string is fixed, and the angle of the decisive hook on the string is the same every time, which is certainly helpful to the accuracy of archery, and solves one of the uncertainties of archery technology, which is a very practical design. It can be imagined that without the help of this mechanism, it is very difficult for the archer to accurately grasp the hook angle, and the angle of the decisive hook has a direct impact on the amplitude of the lateral swing of the string when releasing the string, which affects the accuracy of the archery. A few degrees of change in the angle of the decisive, reflected in dozens of meters away from the target may be dozens of centimeters or even a few meters of error. Therefore, this positioning of the arrow solves a technical problem of thumb hook string archery, and is a unique device in the world. Another important detail of the Rui Guo decisive use of the maneuver lies in. The middle finger presses the concave lone position, and the thumb bends to catch the decisive, which completes the stable state of nocking the string. The index finger can be in two states, one is the index finger is straight and the tip is pressed on the arrow shaft the middle finger is pressed on the thumb, and the other is the index finger is bent and pressed on the thumb to nock the string. Both techniques ensure that the arrow will not wobble and fall off in a bumpy state.

Through further practice, I found that the design of the Resolute is more than just that. The left side of the Resolute is significantly higher than the right side, and the left side has a large curved design. This has to start from the Chinese traditional bow thumb snap string, thumb shooting method action force to snap string hand small arm rotation, the palm of the hand fist at the same time will follow the rotation of the small arm rotation, and then snap string force, so that the left side will be subjected to a large amount of pressure, the left side of the higher large area of the arc surface will catch the thumb piled up over the pressure, thus helping to snap the string, if the same as the right side of the short, the pressure is piled up over the lower face of the trigger will be compressed Thumb. It can be said that the design of the left side being high and the right side being low is very ingenious. Thumb shooting method arrows on the right side, thumb nocking and squeezing the arrow shaft, the force is definitely to the left, the arrow shaft will be squeezed to the left, but the ear against the pressure of the arrow tail, the force is to the right, will be squeezed to the right side of the arrow shaft, so that the left and right forces to check and balance each other, the arrow shaft will not cause too much deformation to the bow handle extrusion, and will not be too loose and easy to fall off. This design is really very gentle to the novice. I've seen too many newbies drop their arrows on the string.

Let's talk about how to train a bowhunter, the modern society, the use of modern materials to make traditional bows and arrows, a do not need to be strung, the life of 100,000 arrows in the traditional bow made of fiberglass sheet only 300 yuan money, a dozen of 12 carbon fiber arrows only 180 yuan, a trigger finger is only a hundred and ten yuan. It starts with two weeks of using a leather strap to simulate an open bow and arrow spread, followed by two weeks of open bow stance training. Then a month of 100 arrows a day shooting training, and then according to the performance of the individual shooting posture to choose the appropriate shooting posture for the individual, a month of training, and finally you can harvest a team of 20 meters stable 40 cm large target not off-target traditional bowman. What if it is ancient times?

Bow and arrow is first of all a difficult problem, ancient times are bamboo and wood material arrows only, natural materials first of all it is not uniform, the weight of the arrow, the center of gravity, deflection (the degree of softness and hardness of the arrow) are not the same, and modern materials of carbon fiber arrows do not exist at all these errors. Let's talk about bows, for example, a bow with a bow power of 35 pounds, a modern bow will shoot 200 arrows and then test the poundage, it will only drop a very, very small amount of pounds, while a bow made of traditional materials will most likely turn out to be 33 pounds, 32 pounds. Having a good spreader, i.e. trigger finger, is a godsend when the equipment is completely unstable.

The Rui Decisive can do a great job of fixing the hook angle, fixing the finger pressure position on the string, and spreading the pressure on the thumb. It can totally increase archery accuracy by +30! You can call it a godsend. With a good trigger finger, the archer can concentrate on aiming, and the +30 accuracy can naturally be achieved, and even more than that.