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Drunken boxing includes almost everything contained in any other Wushu style (defences, attacks, gymnastics and extreme power) and above all that it contains a deceptive philosophy. As you stagger about, you are concentrating on creating momentum and avoiding attacks with the style's trademark unorthodox adaptive moves; for example, if someone is going to push you, you roll over his arms and hit him, and sometimes sink your weight upon him, according to the situation. There are two kinds of Drunken Boxing, traditional and contemporary wushu. Traditional Drunken Boxing is fight oriented. Contemporary Wushu Drunken Boxing is acrobatic and is very different from the Traditional Drunken Boxing. Contemporary Wushu exaggerates its drunken appearance, so much so that anyone actually on alcohol would have a tough time performing such actions. Traditional Drunken Boxing also involves stumbling and staggering, but not to such an extreme as Contemporary Wushu Drunken Boxing. The style is ancient, so much so that its conception is shrouded in myth. According to legend, it originated with the poet Li Bai|Li Po in the Tang Dynasty, but there are two other stories of its beginnings. The first is that Shaolin monasteries had tournaments between each other; one year, a master spoke to his pupils. He said that should they win that year, they would celebrate for six months. When the competition came, they won, and, true to his word, the master began the celebrations. However, the other monasteries sought revenge, and when they came to the monastery of the celebrating monks, the monks were so drunk that it seemed that they would be unable to defend their home. The master still managed to defeat the vengeful monks, and thus was created 'The Drunkard's Fist'. The other story is that an unnamed hermit (his drinking habits are unmentioned) lived alone in a cave in the Wudang Mountains, well placed to learn styles from which to create his own. When he became old, he soon felt that he needed to transmit his art so that it may continue. He began teaching a child, his only disciple. However, realising that he would not be able to teach the whole style to the student before his own death, he taught him a poem in which the precepts of his style were contained. He then told the student to study the paintings upon the cave walls, so that he may know the style. After the master's death, when the student attempted to read the paintings, he found that he couldn't understand the paintings and, disheartened, he decided to leave. Before he did so, he got drunk and returned to the cave. When he gazed at the paintings, he found that they began to move, and he discovered the workings of the style.
Category:Chinese martial arts Category:Contemporary wushu This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Zuijiuquan".
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