That year, because nearby prey decreased, food in the tribe began to grow scarce.
Fuxi, only ten years old, watched his tribesmen worry over their low fishing efficiency and saw spiders by the river weaving webs to catch flying insects, falling into deep contemplation.
Days later, he sought out flexible vines and tree bark fibers, trying repeatedly to weave them until he finally produced the first crude yet usable net.
He taught his tribesmen to use nets for fishing, greatly increasing efficiency and easing the tribal food crisis. The prototype of this net quickly spread throughout the Fengyan Tribe and its surroundings.
Another year, Fuxi observed the postures of birds flying, fish swimming, and beasts running, combining them with his own hunting experience.
Using tough wood and animal sinews, he crafted bows and arrows with greater labor-saving efficiency and longer range, further increasing hunting success rates and safety.
He also discovered that if some docile herbivorous animal cubs were raised and cared for by humans from a young age, they would not flee when they grew up, and could even help transport things or provide fur, milk, and meat.
Thus, he began consciously attempting to domesticate wild sheep, wild boars, and the like, initiating the earliest prototype of animal husbandry.
Within just a few years, relying on his genius observational, creative, and practical abilities, Fuxi successively invented fishing nets, improved bows and arrows, and attempted animal husbandry.
This vastly improved the living conditions of the Fengyan Tribe and surrounding tribes, making food sources more stable and diverse, starting the accumulation of tribal wealth, and gradually increasing the population.
His reputation spread rapidly like winged things among various human tribes on the plains, and the saying that a born sage had emerged in the Fengyan Tribe spread far and wide.
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