Bell-ringing horses, in ancient times, referred to robbers who blocked roads and robbed, also known as "Bell-ringing horses", referring to thieves and horse thief. , refers to the robbery of business travel, evil robbers. It was named after the roaring arrow released in the robbery. When the whistling arrow rings, the horse bandits will fight to grab the goods.

Jianjiang basically means bandit. During the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, a large number of young farmers worked in the Nanshan area in western Henan where bandits were most rampant. Every winter in the slack season, they are recruited to repair and maintain farmland irrigation projects such as terraces and ditches. These people are called "builders" locally. Once the work is reduced and there is nothing to do, the craftsman team can easily become gang bandits, so that the boundaries between them become increasingly blurred. Therefore, in Lushan dialect, bandits are collectively called "gang generals".