Drunken fist kung fu (Chinese: 醉拳; pinyin: Zuì Quán ) is a general name for all the styles of Chinese martial arts that imitate a drunkard. It is an ancient style and its origins are mainly traced back to the famous Buddhist and Daoist sects. The Buddhist style is related to the Shaolin temple while the Daoist style is based on the Daoist tale of the drunken Eight Immortals. Zui quan has the most unusual body movements among all styles of Chinese martial arts. Hitting, grappling, locking, dodging, feinting, ground and aerial fighting and all other sophisticated methods of combat are incorporated.
Drunken boxing form is an imitation of a drunk Chinese traditional boxing action. This punch up, like a drunk drunk stumbled, swaying, but is actually drunk in appearance, is composed of strict martial arts techniques, footwork, body and other routine, not only has practical value, but also have high artistic value. Finally, in the "Taibai drunk" and "Wu Song drunk down" (i.e. Yuhuan Yuanyang, random walk, foot) "Lu Zhishen drunk playing gate", "Drunken Master". Drunken Master and composition of different image, according to the different names of different contents of the routine, but all cannot do without the drunken drunken shape. Finally, because of its content fall and roll motion, so it is considered to be "zui quan". Is one of the excellent cultural heritage of the Han nationality, one of the boxing as one of the essence of the spread down.
drunken form have: eyes, hands, body about techniques, legs, step. Eye view, but, at a little;, cover, split, plug, Diao take, mining, buckle; body suffer hit squeeze on a leg; hook, hanging, disc, scissors, lifting, kicking, bomb, wrapped; there are steps, falling into the the withdrawal, crushing, za , hammer, cover etc..
The technical features of zui quan are based on imitating a drunkard. The main body method is called sloshing, which refers to "Hollow Body, Wine Belly" concept, as though the body is hollow and the lower abdomen (丹田; dantian) is filled with wine (instead of Qi), which travels through the body adding power to the movements.The postures are driven by weight and momentum of the whole body, staggering around, creating sudden power from awkward positions, and fluidity in the movements and transitions from one pose to another. Drunken body style seems peculiar and off-balance, but it is actually in balance.
Drunken style is among the most difficult styles of wushu due to the need for advanced basic requirements. Its intangible, heavy sloshing power is gained through training the body to be soft and agile through basic training and the drunken forms. While in fiction practitioners of zui quan are portrayed as being actually drunk, zui quan techniques are highly acrobatic and require a great degree of balance and coordination, such that attempting to perform these moves while drunk is dangerous, if not impossible.
