How many meters was the furthest an ancient Chinese cold weapon bow and arrow could shoot?

It was about 150 meters to 200 meters. The Cold War bow and arrow is a powerful, long-range, long-range weapon. The bow consists of an elastic bow arm and a resilient bowstring; the arrow consists of an arrowhead, an arrow shaft and an arrow feather. The arrowheads are made of copper or iron (modern arrowheads are mostly alloys), the shafts are made of bamboo or wood (modern ones are mostly pure carbon or aluminum alloys), and the feathers are those of eagles, hawks, or geese. It is one of the important weapons used by the army and hunters.

The invention and improvement of the bow and arrow enable people to kill and injure prey accurately and effectively at a longer distance, and it is easy to carry and use, and many arrows can be prepared for continuous shooting. If any tool or weapon is an extension of the human hand, then the bow and arrow is the greatest extension of the human hand before the birth of firearms.

Engels said: "The bow and arrow is to the age of ignorance as the iron sword is to the age of barbarism and the firearm is to the age of civilization, and even the decisive weapon." Such an assessment of the bow and arrow is still insufficient. For even in the "barbaric age" there was no weapon of bronze or steel (including the iron sword) that could match the bow and arrow. It can be said that until the birth of firearms, the bow and arrow was the decisive weapon.

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The bows are ox-horn bows, composite bows and slider bows, the latter two are made of modern materials and are generally used as competition implements. The ox-horn bow is the pinnacle of ancient Chinese bows and arrows, and is by far no less important than bows made of modern materials.

The ox-horn bow is made of ox horn, bamboo and wood tires, ox tendons, animal glue and other materials processed through a hundred processes, technically difficult, long production cycle, but can not be preserved for a long period of time, the longest can be preserved for a hundred years.

The bow and arrow, as an important weapon in ancient warfare, was eventually eliminated by guns and cannons, and the traditional bow and arrow culture has since become history. There are very few people who can make traditional bows and arrows today, and probably only a few masters in Beijing's Jiuyuan No. and Qufu's Xu Gongfang who can do it.

The Englishman Pitt-Rivers distinguished the bows of the world's peoples into three types: the single bow, the reinforced bow (also known as the synthetic bow, the backed bow, or the stacked bow), and the composite bow, according to the construction of the bow body. The general evolutionary path of bow making is from mono 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 of which was introduced to Europe by the ancient Scythians around the seventh century B.C. The ancient Romans called it the Scythicusbow, a name that has been used up to the present day.

China invented the double recurve composite bow 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 mainstay of the army's equipment during the Warring States period.

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