Volume 1 Building the City Chapter 66 Recurve Bow
After dinner, it was already night, and the bonfire of labor was lit again on the observation deck.
The adult workforce is making salt and tying horses, and the younger children are playing a game of heavenly invention.
After Wang Tian confirmed to Wu that the two Eve who stole the forbidden fruit and Adam were not related by blood, he didn't think about what Wu said.
He only privately warned the two that they must abide by the rules of the tribe, and as punishment, he handed over the work of drying the dried konjac powder to the two of them.
Before the beginning of spring next year, as long as Wu and the leader have not confirmed Huzi's warrior identity, the two cannot be together in the name of spouses.
Excessive repression and indulgence are undesirable, and there are no rules, but in China's 2,000-year history, marriage at the age of twelve or thirteen abounds.
In contrast to the marriage customs of later generations, it is obviously not advisable to apply them completely in this era.
Wu has his own method of recording censuses, and in primitive times, the way of kissing between cousins and sisters was not actually recognized by the tribe.
Compared with later generations, it is actually a reversal of history, and the marriage custom of kissing and kissing is just a means to consolidate property and family status after the emergence of private ownership.
Because of man's selfish desires, he overturned the consensus that had been reached by human beings in primitive times.
It can be seen from this that the selfish and "civilized" later generations of human beings are far less lovely and real than the uncivilized primitive people in the barbarian era.
After that, Wang Tian inspected the animal skin soaking pool, the weaving fiber soaking pool and the materials used to make fish maw glue as usual, and replaced the water in them.
The loom of the second brother King Kong and Liu Bei was manufactured very smoothly, and it should be able to assemble one tomorrow.
Because the textile machine designed by Wang Tian is extremely streamlined, it is nothing more than some log rollers and wooden square supports, and there are no superfluous and fancy designs.
He was thinking about crafting a long-range attack weapon, the bow and arrow. And in one step, it directly makes a recurve compound bow, as well as a single strong bow that is known for its strength.
In fact, the bow and arrow making technique that Wang Tian learned in the scout's wilderness survival training is still quite extensive in the production of a single bow.
After all, it is only for the temporary use of scouts in later generations under certain circumstances. And when the task is clear, the troops have a crossbow with a distribution system.
Its power depends on the user's physical fitness, and the bow has a limited number of years of use.
Wood with high hardness and toughness and easy to bend is selected, and the bow body is bent and deformed to enhance its elasticity by using the principle of heated bending.
In ancient China, the north of China generally used hard and elastic wood, such as oak wood, oak tree, and fir wood, to make a single bow.
This bow relies on the strength of the material itself to inflict significant trauma on the target. There are strong requirements for the physical fitness of the user.
In the south, bamboo material is mostly used as the bow handle, and the whole bow body is a whole whole, wide in the middle, and gradually smaller at both ends.
The middle of the bamboo slice is 4.5-5 cm wide and about 20 cm long.
After grinding and thinning here, the fish maw glue is glued with the wooden "wangjiao", the fish maw glue is very viscous and has permeability, and the bamboo and wood materials can be perfectly integrated into one through bundling and compaction in the early stage.
The two ends of the bamboo slice are bent and shaped with a fire bomb and then cut out a V-shaped notch with a saw, which is used to bond the wooden bow, and there is a notch on the bow for hanging strings.
However, due to the fact that the elasticity of the bamboo piece is far from enough, the ancients came up with the idea of pasting the buffalo horn on the inner side of the bow (after the winding, before the winding, it is actually the outside, and the bottom agrees) to strengthen the rebound force.
The outer side is covered with animal tendons to strengthen toughness, reduce deformation and enhance resilience (while also increasing the rate of fire), and under these two double forces, a well-made composite bow body is produced.
However, whether the production is successful, but you need to wait until the winding to be able to see, the bow is slightly asymmetrical, the swim bladder is not firmly pasted, and various animal materials are pasted unevenly, resulting in uneven force and other reasons will cause the bow body to collapse directly after winding.
After the handle and bow are slightly installed, wait until the wooden handle, bow and bow body are fastened and fused, and then you can start to finalize.
Tie the middle position of the bow fetus tightly and fix it on the bench, with the side of the animal tendon facing down, and put a wooden square under the bow slightly at both ends to determine the recurve curvature.
This process is gradually increased, and it cannot be done all at once, and it is necessary to gradually increase the height of the skid, and gradually reach the degree of reflexing.
It takes about a year to make a good bow, and it takes the longest to paste horns, animal tendons, and recurves.
After that, you can wind and adjust until you reach a satisfactory state with the same up and down the bow.
When the recurve bow is not used for a long time, the bowstring needs to be removed, otherwise the bow body will remember the curved arc after a long time and will lose its elasticity. In this case, the bow will be useless.
The bow is slightly connected to the bow handle similar to a tenon structure, and is glued with animal glue, which greatly enhances the degree of reflexion of the bow and arrow.
But at the same time, it also brings a problem, animal glue is easy to recover and degum under the condition of heat and moisture, which has higher requirements for the use environment and storage environment.
After the debugging, the surface treatment and decoration of the bow body can be carried out, the soft and light bark is pasted, the surface is painted with a pattern, and the cover is painted to complete the final production.
The bamboo bow was greatly developed during the Ming and Qing dynasties in China. No matter how strong a bamboo bow is, it is a lightweight bow.
The development of the bamboo tire bow is due to the convenience of obtaining materials and the use of the tendons, by controlling the thickness of the horns and tendons of animals, it can be used by people of almost any strength level.
This feature makes it possible to equip everyone without discrimination. It is conducive to the promotion and deployment of the armed forces.
And the strong bow and hard crossbow have never had anything to do with the light bow.
What you usually see in film and television works, who and who pulled up a hard bow of several thousand stones, all refer to bows and arrows before the Ming Dynasty.
The characteristics of the adjustable use strength of the bamboo tire bow have become Wang Tian's preferred production direction, but it takes a long time and cannot be equipped in a short time.
And Wang Tian planned to go hunting in person before entering the winter again, looking for food crops that could be planted.
He hoped that he would be able to carry a bow and arrows when the time came, which would undoubtedly greatly enhance the safety of the hunt and the possibility of successful hunting of live animals.
For his own life, he has always taken it very seriously, and if he wants to fight on the street, he can't fight in the primitive society, and he will be ashamed of the people who cross it!
I crossed over by myself, although there is no system, and there is no golden finger, and my life is really aggrieved, but I don't want to be in the mouth of the beast.
The choice of a bamboo bow as the main bow and arrow equipment, which could be used by women and children, was equivalent to increasing the number of warriors in disguise, and undoubtedly enhancing the security of the tribe's defense.
After the wall is repaired, bows and arrows are used condescendingly, and even if all the men in the tribe go out, only women and children are left, and there is no problem at all if you want to defend the tribe.