QA：中国古代是怎样制造箭的？ AS：他们可能是用流水线_风闻

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An arrow consists of three parts: arrowhead, arrow body and feathers.

Arrow shafts and feathers are less difficult. What’s really difficult to make are metal arrowheads.

The ancient Chinese were so skilled at making metal arrowheads that they even created some kind of assembly line-like factory to produce arrowheads.

箭由三部分组成：箭头、箭身和羽毛。

箭身和羽毛的难度较小。真正难制作的是金属箭头。

古代中国人在制造金属箭头方面非常熟练，他们甚至创建了某种类似流水线的工厂来生产箭头。

This is a bronze arrowhead discovered by archaeologists in the pit of Qin Shihuang’s Terracotta Warriors and Horses 2,200 years ago.

More than 40,000 arrowheads like this have been found. Based on inscxtions on other weapons found near the arrowheads, archaeologists found that the arrowheads were made decades apart.

They may have come from military factories in different places at different times.

But all arrows remain highly consistent.

The contour error of the three sides of the Qin soldier’s triangular arrow is no more than 0.15 mm, and the arrow edge adopts a streamlined three-cone space curve. After magnifying 24 times, it miraculously coincides with the outline of a contemporary pistol bullet.

这是考古学家在2200年前的秦始皇兵马俑坑中发现的青铜箭头。

已发现超过40,000个这样的箭头。根据箭头附近发现的其他武器上的铭文，考古学家发现箭头的制作时间相隔数十年。

他们可能来自不同时间、不同地点的军工厂。

但所有箭头都保持高度一致。

秦朝三角箭三边轮廓误差不超过0.15毫米，箭刃采用流线型三锥空间曲线。放大24倍后，与当代手枪子弹的轮廓奇迹般重合。

In addition, metallurgical experts also conducted a metallographic analysis of the arrowheads and found that tens of thousands of arrowheads were actually cast with the same metal ratio. This means that whether in the northern grasslands or in the southern jungles, On the battlefield, all arrows fired by the Qin army at their opponents have the same quality.

此外，冶金专家还对箭头进行了金相分析，发现数以万计的箭头实际上是用相同的金属配比铸造的。这意味着，无论是在北方草原，还是在南方丛林，战场上，秦军向对手射出的所有箭矢，品质都是一样的。

As you can imagine, such an arrow flies smoothly, is fast, and has a very high hit rate. Moreover, the arrow standards are uniform. The quality of this arrow is exactly the same as the previous arrow, and there will be no major deviation.

This is a level that only modern industry can achieve. However, this was already done in ancient China 2,200 years ago.

可想而知，这样的箭飞得平稳，速度快，命中率极高。而且，箭头标准是统一的。这支箭的品质和之前的箭一模一样，不会有大的偏差。

这是只有现代工业才能达到的水平。然而，这在2200年前的中国古代就已经做到了。

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Stacy Lin

· Sat

Not only that…if you look at the geometry of the arrowheads, they create a triangular wound which cannot close on its own. So the victim can bleed out no matter what part of the body the arrow strikes even if it is not a critical point within the torso. British bayonets of the post renaissance period had a similar reputation.

不仅如此……如果你观察箭头的几何形状，它们会形成一个无法自行闭合的三角形伤口。因此，无论箭击中身体的哪个部位，即使不是躯干内的关键点，受害者也可能会一直流血。文艺复兴后时期的英国刺刀也有类似的声誉。

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Oliver C. Be

· Sep 27

impressive

不可思议

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Ahmad Jamal

· Sep 28

Great. I didn’t think it would be possible without some central controlled authority.

太伟大了。我认为如果没有中央集权机构，这是不可能的。

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Yimin Selaks

· Sep 28

The Qin was very centralized and basically ended feudalism in China, which is why they were able to pull stuff off like this as well as standardising coins, roads etc

秦朝非常集权，基本上结束了中国的封建制度，这就是为什么他们能够实现这样的事情以及标准化硬币、道路等

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Anthony Maw

· Sep 28

I’m pretty sure those Chinese bronze arrows could penetrate a Crusader’s chainmail body protection and even Knight’s armour.

我很确定那些中国青铜箭可以穿透十字军的锁子甲身体保护，甚至骑士的盔甲。

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Brian Wilson

· Sep 27

are you saying people from around the world didnt know how to cast bronze? only china did? :)

你是说世界各地的人都不知道如何铸造青铜吗？只有中国有吗？ :)

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Frédéric

· Sep 27

Why don’t you post some pictures of arrows found around the world that were made over 2,000 years ago, and compare them to above pictures?

That would be better than asking such a question?

你为什么不贴一些世界各地发现的2000多年前制作的箭头的图片，并将它们与上面的图片进行比较？

这会比问这样的问题更好吗？

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Benson Osuji

· Sep 27

Not bronze, the consistent standard over decades and the fact that they were producing millions of arrows that were almost the same 2000 years ago, maybe the Romans or Persians achieved the same but I’m not privy to that information.

关键不是青铜，而是几十年来的一致标准，事实上他们生产了数百万支与 2000 年前几乎相同的箭头，也许罗马人或波斯人也达到了同样的水平，但我不知道这些信息。

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Wei Shi

· Sep 28

Not likely, a least not arrow heads.

不可能，至少他们做的不是箭头

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Benson Osuji

· Sep 28

That’s impressive although I’ll check

这令人印象深刻，我去学习一下

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Yimin Selaks

· Sep 27

It’s more about the consistent quality and mass production that was hard to achieve, not bronze casting

更多的是难以实现的一致质量和批量生产，而不是青铜铸造