Production technology of Mongolian horn bow

However, since 1959, due to the popularization of the international bow in China, the traditional horn bow began to be ignored, and later it gradually disappeared in Inner Mongolia for various reasons. In recent years, through the unremitting efforts of the Inner Mongolia Sports Bureau and the Archery Association, in 2005, the traditional Mongolian horn bow was re-made in our region, and now a production base of the traditional Mongolian horn bow has been established, which completely follows the production technology of the traditional Mongolian horn bow, has applied for a national patent, and has been included in the second batch of intangible cultural heritage list of the autonomous region.

According to alatan Ba Gen, a herdsman archer in Xilin Gol Prairie, the horn bow uses a thin and tough wicker as the arch bone, and a horn piece is pasted on the back of the arch bone. Each corner piece is about two to three inches long and is glued to the back of the bow one by one with a special glue. The glue used to stick the bow is very special. It is made of the skin of horses or other animals. High viscosity and not easy to crack. Outside the glued horn, there is beef tendon. After the beef tendon is softened, it is drawn into very thin filaments, each of which is only two or three inches long. Such filaments are glued to the outside of the horn and fixed, and the joints of the tendons should be tied with tendons, and the tendons used for binding should also be glued, so that the whole bow becomes a whole. Grind two notches at both ends of the bow to tighten the bowstring. You can also insert two other corners at both ends and add notches on them to pull the bowstring. This manufacturing method requires high technology. If the horn is not fastened, it may crack when pulling the bow, which may hurt people. The outer layer of the horn bow is finally wrapped in snakeskin as decoration.