It used to refer to some robbers with a sense of justice who robbed the rich and helped the poor.

Also known as How to Help the Poor. Seize the property of the rich and help the poor. In feudal society, it was a form of struggle or slogan of peasant uprising. "The Story of Taurus": "Farmers joined the Taiping Army one after another because they knew that the Taiping Army was helping the poor, and they also described the' Taurus' of the rich man's family to the Taiping Army in detail." In Tao's Biography of Yu, the situation in Zhejiang was briefly described: "Wherever the army went, it was salty to help the poor. Because of the poor people in the village, I look forward to the flag of Meng Ting, and I still look forward to Yun Ni in the drought. " "Selected Poems and Songs of Heaven and Earth Society: Guangxi will rob the rich and help the poor at three o'clock": "Anti-Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, rob the rich and help the poor." Qu Qiubai's "The Times of Happy Festival": "Cao Ze's hero, the result is not to be an emperor, but at most to rob the rich and help the poor." Ba Jin's family 12: "When he grows up, he will be a swordsman who robs the rich and helps the poor."