Japan's bow culture is very meaningful. How to understand it more deeply?

Japan's bow culture is very meaningful. Bows in the world are roughly the same, mainly divided into two categories: long bows and short bows. Different regions and nationalities use different kinds of bows. Longbows are mainly concentrated in Southeast Asia. Historically, short bows were mainly used in China, especially for ethnic minorities riding horses. Before the Yayoi era, Japan used bows and arrows of different lengths, with the limit of 160 cm. In the early days of rope writing, most of the unearthed cultural relics were short bows 70 cm long.

By the end of rope age, the length of the bow is between 130 and 170 cm. Since the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the length of the bow was about 200 cm, but the angle of pulling became very small. Most of the bows and arrows in Nara period in Japan were long bows, which were more than 200 centimeters long. In modern times, the Japanese bow is 227 cm long, which varies according to the height of people, infantry and cavalry. Kundao is the oldest martial art form in Japan, and military archery is a necessary skill for samurai. Training ranges from shooting a hat from a stick while riding to shooting a running dog in a fence.

At that time, the famous archer Naoko Nisase (who died in 1502) preferred to take philosophy courses, because to be an excellent archer, one must be calm and concentrate on improving one's skills. The standard bow length used in modern kung fu is 22 1 cm, which shows that Japan has been using long bows since ancient times. Generally, the bow length is divided into long ocean bow and short continental bow, and the demarcation point is 180cm. According to this classification, the Japanese bow belongs to the marine nation.

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