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What fishing tools did ancient people use?
First, the net is the most commonly used fishing tool and plays an important role in fishing activities:

1, Shantou people, that is, Yan, was called Liao in ancient times, that is, it was copied today.

It is an original pocket-shaped small net with handles, which is mainly used for inland fresh water and has a small operation scale.

2. There was another kind of fishing gear in pre-Qin and later generations, called "Yi", which was a net that was "shaped like an umbrella cover and lifted in four dimensions".

3. The curtain is a gill net, which is arranged vertically and horizontally on the fish passage to block or enclose the fish, so that it can pierce the mesh or be caught by the net clothing.

4. Cables and fences, that is, purse seines.

I am blind, and I specialize in catching big fish; Close your eyes and catch small fish.

This kind of net is most suitable for fishing dense or gregarious pelagic fish.

5. In addition to the above categories, trawling, netting, covering nets, etc.

Second, fishing gear is also a fishing tool with a long history and a wide range of uses.

China ancient fishing gear mainly has the following forms:

1, straight hook fishing, is a kind of fish card, which is made of animal bones and ground into a stick shape with sharp ends and holes in the middle, which is convenient for threading.

Fish get stuck in their mouth and cheeks when they sigh.

2. The iron fishhook appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period and was later replaced by the Western Han Dynasty.

3, car fishing, appeared in the Jin Dynasty, mainly produced in the Yangtze River basin.

The ancestors made a fishing cart, wrapped a long line around the cart, hooked the fish on the diaphragm, and used the fishing cart to collect the fish.

4. Pipe fishing appeared in the Tang Dynasty.

It cuts bamboo into a tube shape without tying wires and hooks; When fishing, you must put it in the right waters, unattended, and take in the fish every once in a while.

5. Drag fishing. In the Song Dynasty, fishermen used a hook as an arm and a chicken and a goose as bait to catch big fish. With half of the Japanese trapped, a little closer; It is desirable for half of Japan, but it is abandoned as soon as it meets the wind.

The fish can't be eaten, and the small fish is cut open by laparotomy. The small fish has dozens of pieces (tails) and dozens of kilograms in one abdomen.

6. Roll hook fishing, in which many branches are tied to a pole, and then a large number of hooks are tied to the branches, which is generally used for big fish at the bottom of rivers and seas.

This fishing method was founded in the Southern Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming Dynasty.

7, bait longline fishing, Ming and Qing dynasties, with the deepening of the sea March, people have known many habits of hairtail, living in the middle and lower water layers, migrating in groups and eating fiercely.

Accordingly, fishermen cut bamboo into cylindrical ropes, and the fishing line was tied horizontally between the ropes. The number of wires is "hundreds or dozens" and the distance between wires is "every two feet".

Then put the fish tail as bait on the silk.

"When you catch a fish, the group will rise with the tail."

3. Foil fishing gear is made of bamboo poles or strips, rattan, reed poles or branches, which are widely distributed in north and south, and its forms and functions are also diverse.

Some of them originated very early, such as in primitive social and cultural sites, and there are records of covers, bricks and gongs from time to time in the documents of pre-Qin and Han dynasties.

Foil fishing gear can be roughly divided into two types according to its structural characteristics and uses: grid foil and cage grid.

Mesh foil is a kind of fishing gear which is woven with bamboo, wood and its products to prevent fishing in the water.

The grid foil starts from the fish beam.

Fish bridge is also intercepted, but it is mainly made of soil or stone, which is difficult, costly and ineffective.

In the Tang dynasty, it was said that the mesh foil fishing gear was a hook, not a Shanghai, but a hairpin.

Cages and grates are woven into small traps, hidden places or fishing gear for storing aquatic products, as well as reeds, baskets and baskets. Used for fishing, it is generally placed in the shallow water area near rivers, lakes and seas or on the edge of weeds, so that fish and shrimp can enter.