It's all hunting, farmers hunting, and hunting princes and nobles, which is very different.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, farmers hunted, mainly to protect agricultural production.

Because at that time, it was generally vast and sparsely populated, and there were still many birds and beasts. Wild boars can damage crops, and predators can harm poultry, livestock, and even women, children, and the elderly.

Hunting is a preventive measure to protect the lives and property of farmers. At the same time, the hunting catch is also an important meat supplement.

For farmers, hunting is an important means of production that is vital to their livelihood.

And the princes and nobles hunted for entertainment, and the important thing was to have fun.

In order to let Dong Ye have fun, the first thing Ou Xing had to do was to select the location of the hunting ground.

Jing has cloud dreams, rhino elk is full of it. Yunmeng Daze is a good place to hunt.

In the pre-Qin period, Dongting Lake was Dongting Lake, and Yunmengze was Yunmengze.

Dongting Lake is a faulted basin on the southern axis of the Yangtze Quasi-Plateau, which was formed during the Yanshan movement and continued to the Himalayan movement.

Under the action of plate movement, there have been more than 4 times of the evolution process of depression into lakes and bulge into land, and the corresponding depression basin dissolves and forms a fault basin.

In the late Holocene, the entire lake basin was the Dongting Plain, which was interlaced by a network of rivers, and there was a small lake with a circle of 130 square kilometers on the southwest side of Junshan at that time.

In the pre-Qin period, the ancestors called Junshan Dongting Mountain, and the small lake under Dongting Mountain was named Dongting Lake because of the mountain.

Also in the pre-Qin period, according to the records of "Zuo Chuan", "Chinese" and "Zi Xufu", there was a hunting area of the king of Chu called "Yunmeng" in the Chu State at that time.

The Yunmeng area is quite broad, the east is in the east of the Dabie Mountain and the Mufu Mountain to the Yangtze River bank in the east of Wuhan, the west is in the east of the Yichang and Yidu lines, including the Songzi and Gong'an counties in the south of the Yangtze River, the north is roughly to Suizhou City, Zhongxiang, Jingshan area, and the south is bordered by the Dajiang River.

There are various geographical forms such as mountains and forests, rivers and rivers in the Yunmeng area, and there is a lake called "Yunmengze". "Yunmengze" is named after "Yunmeng", and the two do not refer to the same concept.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the main body of Yunmengze was located in the east of present-day Jingzhou City, between Jianghan and Jianghan, and was bounded by the Yangtze River in the south, which had nothing to do with Dongting Lake in the south of the Yangtze River.

Later, with the sediment filling brought by the Han River and the Yangtze River, the original landform began to change. Under the magic of nature, Yunmengze moved eastward and southward as a whole, and then intersected with Dongting Lake# and merged, evolving into a vast plain-lake and marsh landform landscape.

In the fourth year of Zhongping, out of the county seat of Luo County, about 60 miles to the north, you will arrive at Yunmeng Daze.

At this time, in the Yunmeng Daze area, there are turtles and finless porpoises swimming in the water, rhinoceros and elk running on the ground, and black storks and egrets flying in the sky.

However, it still takes some effort to pick out a suitable hunting ground in the vast Yunmeng Daze.

The grass on the bank of Yunmeng Daze looks like grass from a distance, and it looks like grass up close, but after stepping on it, it is not necessarily grass - it may also be a swamp.

On May 10th, he sincerely wanted to invite the county commander to hunt, not to murder the county commander's Qu Xing, so he set off to the bank of Yunmeng Daze with Ou Jiachong's horse team, and began to explore the way, mark the swamp, and delineate the hunting grounds suitable for galloping horses.

There are 406 large and small horses, most of which have been purchased in the last two years. Among these horses, only 108 of them have a shoulder height of more than 5 feet 9 inches, which meets the minimum shoulder height requirements of the Han military horses.

There were 108 qualified military horses, but there were less than 36 qualified cavalrymen.

Ou's getting rich is in the last three or four years. In the past, the clan of the district clan lived a tight life, and there were very few clansmen who could ride horses from a young age like the young patriarch Ou Xing.

In the past two years, Au has been buying horses and expanding the size of the horse team. However, because the run-in time was too short, most of the clansmen could only borrow horses to maneuver quickly, and then dismount and stretch their bows.

Although the entire clan of the district, regardless of women, children, and ages, everyone can shoot arrows with a bow. However, counting the district stars, there are less than 20 people in the whole clan who can be proficient in riding and shooting.

Ou Xing's riding and archery skills are just ordinary, probably at the level of being able to shoot moving targets on the back of a standing horse and a fixed target on a galloping horse, not to mention how superb.

However, if it is a horse, in terms of foot shooting, Ou Xing can be called unparalleled in Luo County.

In archery, Ou Xing is extremely talented.

Before the crossing, when he was a child, he was able to hit the bull's-eye with a plastic arrow with a suction cup at the front of the toy bow.

It's a pity that in the countryside of Xiangbei at that time, neither Ou Xing himself nor Ou Xing's grandparents realized that this was a rare talent.

Ou Xing's archery talent was shown again, and it was not until he went to Ningshi to study at university.

When he entered the freshman year, the school's archery club recruited new students, and the seniors of the new club were like pyramid schemers, who handed out leaflets as soon as they saw the freshmen, praising him for his amazing bones and the fact that he must be a genius in archery.

Ou Xing was confused, so he was dragged to the gymnasium by a beautiful senior sister and filled out the application form.

In the subsequent first experience session, Ou Xing stretched his bow and used the common method of pinching arrows for laymen, and an arrow hit the bull's-eye of the target 10 meters away.

The new senior sister was dumbfounded.

"You put this on." The president of the club, who saw this scene, walked over, took off his three-finger guard and handed it to Ou Xing, who was looking at the senior sister silly, "Pull the string like this." ”

The president personally taught, and the people who ate melons in the club all came around. In the crowd of onlookers, Ou Xing, who had just learned the three-finger string pulling (Mediterranean archery method), raised the competitive recurve bow handed over by the president, opened the bow and set up an arrow, and one arrow hit the 30-meter target.

In the midst of an exclamation, Ou Xing began his own journey.

In the summer vacation of the second semester of his junior year, Ou Xing, a newcomer to archery who has been practicing for two and a half years, once represented Ning City to participate in the men's archery team event of the Provincial Games in Jiangsu Province.

Although the Ningshi team pulled his hips as a whole, Ou Xing was selected for the provincial training team of Suzhou Province with his excellent performance.

However, the stars of the unequal zone go to a higher stage to show their marksmanship. At the end of the second semester of his senior year, the summer vacation before the first semester of graduate school began, Ou Xing inexplicably crossed over.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, because of the Confucian standard requirements for archery and the need for stable archery in mounted archery, the popular way to pull the string in the Han Empire was the thumb hook string (Mongolian archery method). In this life, the way to pull the string was also changed to a thumb hook.

Although the experience of the previous life's competitive recurve three-finger shooting method cannot be directly applied, talent is talent, and Ou Xing learned the traditional bow and thumb shooting method, and he still has divine help.

When he was in elementary school in Kou Shiwu, his classmates always only competed for the second place in the archery of the six arts of the gentleman, because the first was always the district star.

It's a pity that in both lives, Ou Xing failed to fully develop his talent for archery.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, Ou Xing did not allocate too much time to archery practice - if you want to lift big things, there are more important things than archery.

"Shaojun, Yunmeng Daze has arrived."

"Phew~ stop. Exploration and site selection is not a day's work. Choose a dry place and set up camp. ”

"In Chu, the West will pass the canal of the Han River and the wilderness of the clouds" - "Historical Records: The Book of River Canals"