In the remote age when crop cultivation was not popularized, birds and beasts were the staple food of the human race. With the development of social economy, the hunting industry became an indispensible industry in the daily life.

The targets of hunting were no other than the various species of birds and animals such as tiger, bear, roe, ermine, boar, goat, wolf, fox, eagle, pheasant, wild goose, and so on and so forth.

The earliest hunters often missed the target when they used arrows to shoot. So they ingeniously set some traps to catch the beasts alive according to the different living habits of the animals. To hunt the bear hibernating in den, the hunters in the north set fire to the den to melt the ice and snow, and then dropped in some wood blocks for the bear to seat on, so that the bear would be lifted higher and its head would show at the mouth of the den. The hunter would take the advantage and cut down its head with a sharp knife. The roe tends to skip while walking, so the hunter would set a loop rope so that when the roe skipped, its neck would be hitched by the rope which made it hard to escape. To catch a tiger required even greater guts and skills. The tiger usually rests at day and preys during the night. The hunter would set an iron wire on the path with one end connected to the trigger of the gun. Once the tiger touched the wire, it would be shot by the bullet.

The hunter would eat the meat of the hunted animal step by step and sell the hide. Sometimes when there was enough meat, the hunter would raise the beast that was captured alive, which was later evolved into livestock rearing industry.