The history of the bow is quite long, as early as 30,000 years ago in the Paleolithic Age, human beings began to use bows and arrows, the earliest bow and arrow is very simple, with a stick or bamboo pole made, the most recorded for the bow and arrow is the Spring and Autumn Warring States "Examination Worker Record", in order to make a good bow needs dry, horns, tendons, glue, silk, lacquer, collectively known as "six materials".
China relative to Japan to make bows is very troublesome, Japanese bows called "and bow", ancient also known as the big bow, it is the longest bow in the world, longer than the English bow, the length is about 2.2 meters, such a long bow is difficult to control, and before the Meiji period, the average height of the Japanese is only more than 1.5 meters, why do they want to make such a long bow?
The Japanese bow appeared in the Jomon period (13000 BC), the earliest washi bow called "Maruki bow", the prototype of the Marugi bow is to absorb the characteristics and curves of the Han bow, because the power of the Maruki bow is very large, the person who hits the arrow is very painful, so in the middle and late Heian period and the Kamakura period there is a saying that "the Samurai of Bandong are invincible".
Although the bow is divided into a maruki bow, a heavy lacquer bow, a heavy vine bow, a bow, a bow, a bow and a bow, a bow and a bow, a bow, a bow
Maruki bow is also a Japanese junior high school, high school, university, bow club must use bow and arrow, we want to say that the 2.2 meter long bow is also a maruki bow, maruki bow is the earliest bow and arrow in Japan, because early Japan is no animal husbandry, there is no some horns, tendons and the like produced in China.
In order to enhance the hardness, Japan uses oil to soak, in the rope, a bow and arrow becomes, but the Japanese are rich in craftsmanship, there is no extra material, the use of the advantages of the material itself to create a bow, marugi bow in the shape, the upper arc part accounts for two-thirds of the bow length, the lower arc one-third.
This and the normal bow and arrow ratio must have destroyed the balance, but when the bow and arrow is pulled open, the position of the hand just avoids the vibration node of the bow, and in the state of pulling the full string, the maruki bow is in proportion, completing the "golden section", so the bow is also known as the most beautiful bow shape among the bow species.
Japan also created this kind of bow and arrow because of the material, the so-called no way, just create a way, then this kind of longbow is useful? In 1271, Kublai Khan declared himself emperor and established the Great Yuan, while attacking the Southern Song Dynasty, while crossing Japan, originally the Yuan used iron cannons to gain the advantage, but the Yuan vice general Liu Fuheng was shot by an arrow, and the appearance of the bow put the two armies into a stalemate, and finally the storm struck, the Yuan army killed and wounded 13,000 people, and could only retreat.
Qi Jiguang, a famous anti-Japanese general during the Ming Dynasty, also recorded the Japanese bow in the "New Book of Ji Xiao": "The arrows are heavy, the bows are strong, and the hair is not far away." If you do not lightly hair, you will be in the middle of the people, and those who are in the middle will be killed, so the people will fear it. ”