instructor: Xing Junjian
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- combat strategy:
the drunken style teaches unpredictability and "ambush" tactics, which are specially used in hard or losing situations:
tactic 33 - "be wise, play dumb (假痴不癫)": pretend abnormality, like being off-balance, etc., to deceive the opponent.
tactic 34 - "self-infliction tactic (苦肉计)": pretend injuries to delude the opponent, making him underestimate and loosen guard.
tactic 35 - "toss a brick, take gem (抛砖引玉)": expose part of your body as bait to lure the opponent into an ambush.
tactic 36 - "sowing discord tactic (反间计)": abnormal moves from unlikely angles confuse the opponent.
Shaolin drunken style follows no standard and, unlike other Shaolin styles, doesn't have a standard form. this is why people have different drunken forms.
in hard fights when you are losing, you often get into awkward situations with no normal way of attack or defense. in this style, you intentionally ambush in awkward positions to persuade the opponent open guard for your moves which go to unlikely angles. these teach you how to be unpredictable and turn lost situations into winning maneuvers.
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- history:
Tang dynasty (618-907):
at the beginning of the dynasty, in 621 AD, 13 monks from Shaolin temple intervened prominently in a war to help the new dynasty. Li Shimin (李世民), son of the new emperor and the commander of the Tang army, appreciated it and endowed the monks with officialdom, land, and wealth, and came to Shaolin temple in ceremony of the victory, and gifted the monks with the permission to disavow the Buddhist rule of not consuming meat and wine. monk Zhi Shou (智守), one of the 13 monks, had a prior interest in wine before becoming a monk and is said to had been able to drink 5 catties of wine in one breath. following the permission, he grabbed a jar and drank a huge amount of wine. monks blamed him, but fully intoxicated, he challenged the monks in disorder with his staff and then bare hand when disarmed, and could defy a vary large group of monks. the abbot praised this 'drunken style' and it was adopted, refined, and inherited over generations. because of their Buddhist vows, monks did not standardize this style, but most lineages of the monks developed their own drunken form and kept it as their hidden advanced style.
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- note: there are various other drunken forms and styles in Chinese kung fu, and they are different from Shaolin zui han quan. most of them are based on imitating the Daoist tale of the 8 drunken immortals, while Shaolin zui han quan is based on the Buddhist character of a drunken luohan. though technically similar, these are different styles.
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