(1561~?) Ming Dynasty military strategist and martial arts writer. The word Chongdou, the number of cultivators. A native of Xin'an (now Xiuning County, Anhui Province), a native of Xindu County, Sichuan Province. Since childhood, he has practiced martial arts, and has the ambition of a great bird, and he is a famous teacher, and he is not afraid to visit far. Later, he traveled to Shaolin Temple, practiced stick method from Shaolin monk Hong Ji, Hong Zhuan, Zongxiang, Zongdai and Guang'an, etc., and carefully studied the art of bow, horse, knife and gun, for more than ten years, and was quite attained. Later, he learned the sword technique from Liu Yunfeng in Zhejiang, and resumed learning marksmanship from Henan. When you visit Shouchun (now Shou County, Anhui Province), you get a "copper machine" from the local native caves. After his careful study and reform, he created a new type of lightweight and suitable "Tension Crossbow". Zong You has been diligent in practicing martial arts all his life, and his skills are perfect, and there are many people who have traveled to teach art. In the forty-fourth year of Wanli (1616), the three volumes of "Shaolin Stick Law Interpretation" came out.

In the first year of the Apocalypse (1621), he wrote one volume each of "The Method of Kicking the Heart", "The Method of Selecting the Spear", and "The Method of Single Knife Selection", which was combined with the "Shaolin Stick Method Interpretation of the Sect" and renamed "The Remaining Skills of Cultivation". The sticks, guns, and knives in his writings are all routines that are inherited from each other. He believes that only by training in a complete set of movements can we comprehensively improve the methods of advancing and retreating, jumping, and circling, and avoid being hindered by the enemy. His work has become one of the important documents for future generations to inherit and study the development of martial arts in the Ming Dynasty, and it is also another relatively complete martial arts monograph after Qi Jiguang's "Ji Xiao Xinshu". In the second year of the Apocalypse (1622), the Later Jin Dynasty invaded, and the Ming Dynasty went out to fight. Due to the poor quality of the training of the soldiers and soldiers, they were on the verge of defeat. Zong You was 62 years old at the time, and was called by Li Pi, the governor of Tianjin, and was appointed as the secretary of the secretary, leading more than 80 disciples to bring their own food and salary, and rushed to Jinmen Congrong. With the powerful crossbows, knives and spears he created, he trained the soldiers day and night. He advocated attaching equal importance to "courage, will, and martial arts," not sticking to ancient methods, and striving to train troops based on the needs of actual combat. Later, Li Pi was transferred out of Tianjin to the mainland, and he also returned to his hometown in old age. In the second year of Chongzhen (1629), he wrote a "History of Shooting", a total of 8 volumes.

Chen Dake and Xie Jun in this book are fictitious characters due to the needs of the story, and their names are borrowed from my elementary school classmates, not really Cheng Zongyou's apprentices.