The first step is material selection: select the bamboo that has been dried in the shade for more than one year after treatment, and it is required to choose the bamboo with a consistent bamboo node and a good surface;

The second step is to deal with the material: stagger the bamboo to cut the desired length, generally six feet, rough planing and then scribing and straightening, using a saw to straighten the line, and then fine planing and grinding;

The third step is to cut the bow tire and grind the bow tire, which takes a comparative time, and it takes about half a day to process;

The fourth step, glue the rope: glue the rope on the three or four pieces of material, the rope wrapped here is best hemp rope, the rope must be even, and the force on the hand must be even, which directly determines whether your bow body is twisted or not, and the glue is not clean;

The fifth step is to shape the bow body: this is a meticulous work, punching the wedge, hitting the wedge according to the different positions of the bow body to change the degree of bending, and finally calling out the desired bow shape.

The sixth step is to put it in the sun to dry, about two days, remove the wedge and rope, the bow body is baked, and then grind off the glue on both sides of the bow body, carry out rough taming, roughly determine the bow shape, and then repair the tip, find a rope to wind, look at the bow shape to adjust the bow, and then try to pull.

The last recurve bamboo bow is made.

These steps are all pondered by the former patriarch of the Moon Clan, the bow master of the Dragon Tribe, Yue Qi, because of the fact that his legs are a little disabled, it is difficult to participate in hunting activities, so he devotes most of his day to bow making, even if he can't make a bow at night, Yue Qi will calm down and think about the bow making process, and constantly improve the bow making process.

At the beginning of the Dragon Tribe, how simple the bow was, that is, a long piece of bamboo tied to a rope to finish the work, such a bamboo bow is not accurate, let alone range.

Seeing Yueqi's serious bow-making, Su Yan told Yueqi some of the knowledge he knew, and let Yueqi think about it himself, Yueqi did not live up to Su Yan's expectations, in three years, from ordinary bamboo bows to recurved bamboo bows, Yueqi has almost reached the limit in terms of bamboo as a bow body material, and now Yueqi has opened the market to choose other materials to make the bow body.

In Yue Qi's opinion, the recurve bow is still a bit small and not strong enough, and Yue Qi wants to make a longbow more, but bamboo cannot be used as a material for the longbow, so it is necessary to choose a better material.

Yueqi is the most popular person in the group of people who are about to become adults in the Dragon Tribe, when the Dragon Tribe just appeared with bows and arrows, Su Yan asked the carpenter to make a batch of simple bows and arrows as children's toys, and adults could not change for a while, Su Yan turned to cultivate children's interest in bows and arrows.

Now that the group of people who like bows and arrows are about to reach adulthood, they most want to get a bamboo bow made by Yue Qi himself, who is recognized as a master of bow making.

At the rite of passage on the third day of spring, there is a coming-of-age ceremony for the clansmen, not only to change the identity card, but also to award them weapons, spears, bronze swords, bows and arrows at the coming-of-age ceremony, which they can choose according to their habits.

However, there are more than 100 adult male clansmen this year, and more than half of them are clansmen who like bows and arrows, so Yue Qi doesn't have time to make a bow and arrow for each of them.

In the end, Yue Qi took the time to make three recurve bamboo bows, a batch of recurve bamboo bows made by other craftsmen, and an archery competition decided the ownership of the three bamboo bows made by Yue Qi, and the three people with the best grades were awarded a bamboo bow made by Yue Qi at the coming-of-age ceremony, and at the coming-of-age ceremony, they each awarded a recurve bamboo bow made by other craftsmen.

The archery competition is held after the coming-of-age ceremony, which is the afternoon of the third day of spring.

In winter, even if the weather is cold, dozens of soon-to-be-adult clansmen take advantage of the good weather to practice their bows and arrows, hoping to improve their skills and win a bow carefully crafted by the Moon Apocalypse next year.

Su Yan was happy to see that the clansmen worked hard to improve their archery skills, and the future battlefield was the world of bows and crossbows, one side was only equipped with shields, spears, and long swords, and the other side was equipped with bows and arrows, as long as it was not a shield made of pure metal, the arrows shot out by the longbow could even penetrate the shield, and the enemy had not rushed over, and nearly half of them were wiped out by the arrows, even if they were not defeated, their morale would plummet.

When it comes to archery skills, the best archery skills in the dragon tribe are not the group of clansmen who are about to become adults, nor the bow master Yue Qi, but Xiao Yue, who often pulls Su Yan and Xiao Hua to shoot arrows, and often uses birds as targets.

Xiao Yue followed Su Yan to learn martial arts, and her strength was almost able to rank in the top fifty in the dragon tribe, plus Xiao Yue was very interested in bows and arrows, and her archery skills were improving rapidly, with a distance of about twenty zhang, not to mention a hundred shots, nine shots out of ten shots.

Every time Yue Qi makes a bamboo bow, almost all of them are collected by Xiao Yue, Xiao Yue hopes that Yue Qi can make a better bow, and the best bamboo bow can't make Xiao Yue use all his strength.

Su Yan didn't stop Xiao Yue from practicing archery skills, this is Xiao Yue's hobby after all, the possibility of Xiao Yue going to the battlefield is very small, if even Xiao Yue goes to the battlefield, the situation faced by the Dragon Tribe can be imagined, Su Yan will not let this situation happen.

The winter of twenty-two years is coming to an end, and there is a problem in front of Su Yan.

This year, the Dragon Tribe has just moved nearly half of its population from Source City to Akagi, and when it comes to the spring festival next year, how should the Dragon Tribe hold the sacrifice.

In the autumn of this issue, Su Yan had already discussed with the high-level leaders of the Dragon Tribe, and on the third day of spring next year, the two cities would hold sacrificial activities, Su Yan personally presided over the source city, and the Chicheng side was presided over by several witches who moved to Chicheng.

However, the clansmen in Akagi who have reached the adult standard have to come to Gencheng to participate in the coming-of-age ceremony, and finally Su Yan will give them weapons and send blessings.

There are two things that the adult people want most during the coming-of-age ceremony, one is to get a weapon they want, and the other is the king's blessing, without the king's blessing at the coming-of-age ceremony, it will make them feel inadequate.

Therefore, if conditions permit, Su Yan will try his best to personally hold a coming-of-age ceremony for all the soon-to-be clansmen of the Dragon Tribe, but when the Dragon Tribe grows stronger and stronger, all the soon-to-be adult-going clansmen cannot get together, so they can only be separated at that time, and the city lords of each city will grant them weapons to send them blessings.

Perhaps by this time next year, the population of the Dragon Tribe will exceed 10,000, and Su Yan has already planned the third city of the Dragon Tribe, and the third city will be established in the south of Source City.

The source city is nearly three days away from the big river in the south, if a road is opened, it will only take a little more than two days to complete, the third city of the dragon tribe is built in the middle of this road, and it is relatively close to the location of the bamboo forest, Su Yan directly named the third city that was not established as Bamboo City.

Set fire to the wasteland next spring, and construction can start the year after.