임진왜란을 대비해서 장수와 많은 군졸들이 산과 들에서 훈련하다가 간신배에 몰려 억울하게 잡혀 살해되었다는데, 너무 억울하게 죽은 넋이 대나무로 솟아났다고 하여 대모통이라 한다.
In preparation for the Imjin Invasion, the general and many military officers were trained in the mountains and fields, and they were caught and killed unjustly by a disloyal subject, and it is said that a soul who died too unjustly sprang up from bamboo, so it is called "Daemotong."