Legend of the Cigarette Warrior

According to legend, the "Ku family stick" is a set of stick techniques created by an ancestor of the Ku family named Ku Zhongjun. He was originally a member of the Western Han Dynasty General Wei Qing's army, and was a war hero in the battle against the Xiongnu in the north, but he was wounded by an arrow before he was assigned by the court to be a treasurer of the treasury on the outskirts of Chang'an. He was awarded the title of "General of the Treasury" by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and given the surname "Ku" as a token of appreciation.

Guarding the imperial treasury was not an easy task, as it was often visited by thieves on the dark and windy nights, and in times of calamity, stragglers, famine, and bandits came almost every night, and there was no shortage of desperadoes among them. At first, for those who came to the treasury, Kuzhongjun, according to the law of the Han Dynasty, would kill them all. But later, his thinking changed, and he felt that on the battlefield of the Xiongnu in the north, the enemy and I would fight each other with swords and guns, and either you would die or I would die, and killing people for their lives was a necessity. To try the law on their own, to kill them with a knife and an axe is a kind of atrocious act of human extermination. So, on one hand, Kuzhongjun asked the court to allocate food money for disaster and famine relief to help the starving people whose lives were in danger, and on the other hand, he persuaded his officers and soldiers to throw away their swords and spears and replace them with sticks as weapons, and to stop killing the incoming thieves and starving people, but only to intimidate and drive them away. And KU Zhongjun also created a set of stick art to teach the soldiers to practice, and in the actual battle on the set of stick art for continuous improvement, so that it has become a kind of attack and defense of the stick method, the world called "KU family stick".

As the stars turn and the years change, the people of the Ku family have been moving in the years of dynasties and wars, but no matter where they go and where they move to, the sticks in their hands are still held tightly, and the ancestral Ku family stick method is still practiced at times and passed down from generation to generation.

In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, a branch of the Ku family came to the foot of Sun Mountain, south of Si Zhou City, and built a fortress and houses here, and gradually formed a village, which is the Ku family fortress.

In the late Qing dynasty, the Ku family village out of a martial arts master named Ku Da Kuan, known as the Smoking Bag Warrior, is the direct descendant of the Ku family stick method, and is also known as a kung fu king. One year, Ku Dafuan into the city to participate in the county head of the martial arts competition, a five-foot stick was made by him to make the perfect, all the way to sweep the opponents killed the final. Do not want to meet in the final but a big problem, the opponent has a large waist, as strong as a bull, nicknamed "Sai Li Kui", two axes make the whirring wind, the strength of the strong greatly exceeded the expectations of Ku Dafuan. On the martial arts field, the two men went all out to fight hard, but after a few dozen rounds, Ku Dafuan still found the opponent's weaknesses. However, just when he was looking for an opportunity to subdue his opponent, "Sai Li Kui" suddenly changed his moves, double axes together, into an axe, and then raised high, a move of "axe split Taishan", making all the strength of life, to Ku Da Kuan will cut down, Ku Da Kuan quick hands and eyes, rushed to both hands The result is "click" a crisp sound, the hands of the date palm stick was cut into two sections. Ku Dafuan was shocked and was about to bend his head to sue for defeat, but he didn't want "Sai Li Kui" was already red-eyed and danced his double axes to grab over again, and his moves were fatal. This guy is too unjust, Ku Dafuan steps back, the danger is at a loss, but found his dry tobacco bag is still in his waist behind the pins, so they will draw out and "Sai Li Kui" circle, and in the vacant, move, dodge, dodge in aiming at the time, to "Sai Li Kui" of Right wrist knocked a cigarette pot, the result of "Sai Li Kui" right hand in the plate axe "when" thrown to the ground. A move worked, Ku Da Kuan spirit a revitalization turn defense into attack, and catch "Sai Li Kui" physical exhaustion, slow movement, and one-handed single-axe combat lack of response weakness, waving the hand of dry tobacco pouch, finger east to hit the west, finger up to hit the next, "snap snap" knocked "Sai Li Kui" dizzy, not long, the head will be raised five or six bruises, and finally, had to throw away the axe in the hand, covering the head and ran out of the martial arts field. So Ku Dafuan relied on a dry tobacco bag to win first place in the county instructor competition. His "tobacco bag warrior" nickname will thus spread.