Drunken Monkey Form or Drunken Monkey Pole Form of Kung-Fu is a Chinese martial art, and one of the six variations of the Monkey Style. Chinese martial arts, often abbreviated as CMA, refers to the enormous variety of martial art styles native to China. ... Monkey Kung Fu (猴拳) is a Chinese martial art where the movements imitate monkeys or apes in fighting. ...

This style is different from Zui Quan (Drunken Fist), as the practitioner is imitating gestures of an intoxicated monkey, rather than a human fighter. Zui Quan (Traditional and Simplified Chinese: 醉拳; pinyin: Zuì Quán, literally Drunken Fist, also known as Drunken Boxing or Drunkards Boxing) is a traditional Chinese martial art. ... Approximate worldwide distribution of monkeys. ...

Also, Drunken Monkey does not begin with drunken-like gestures, but rather the drunken aspect enters the forms in the middle section when the practitioner plays the movements of a monkey drinking stolen wine. A glass of red wine This article is about the alcoholic beverage. ...

The Drunken Monkey style is also completely different to the naked eye when compared to Zui Quan and is shorter in sequence. This style, however, is considered more artisically beautiful, acrobatic and agile compared to Zui Quan. This does not necessarily mean that it is more or less effective in actual combat.

Contrary to claims in movies, actually being drunk doesn't improve drunken monkey or drunken fist. It's based on the concept of imitating being drunk, actually being drunk is not required.

Description and Techniques

The form is short and simple, consisting of a few dozen or so movements. Much of the moves are performed at a low ground level, with rolling, tumbling and falling techniques. There is also many unusual grappling and blocking techniques. The higher level attacks include eye pokes and throat hits; as well as blocks and punches (with punching being exceptional as monkeys do not attack with fists much). There are also many middle attacks such as kicks aimed to the stomach area, and lower attacks to the lower abdomen, groin and legs.

• The "Monkey-Hands" Technique: Relaxed hand strikes with the palm facing downward and fingers drooping towards the ground, used to deflect hand strikes and kicks, and also to strike with the fingers towards the throat and eyes.
• The "Monkey-Claws" Technique: This attack is basically a strike with the palm facing forward and hitting with the fingers and striking downward, like any animal's clawing motion. It is used to hit the face and eyes, and can also be used to grapple the opponent's wrist.
• Low Kicks and Ground Kicks: There are many kicks in Drunken Monkey, primarily aimed at the lower portions of the body (legs, groin, abdomen) and executed from a low position or from lying on the ground.

Origin

The inspiration for Drunken Monkey can be traced to the character "Sūn Wùkōng" from the story "Journey to the West", written in the Ming Dynasty by Wu Cheng'en. In the story, the Monkey King stole all the peaches of the "spiritual peach tree" of the Heavenly King Mother and drank all the wine reserved for fairies and immortals who were invited to the birthday party of the Heavenly King. The Heavenly King became enraged and the Monkey King made a mess of the Heavenly Palace after fighting and defeating all of the Heavens' warriors. The Monkey King had to be finally subdued by Buddha Yu-lei. This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling. ... The four heroes of the story, left to right: SÅ«n Wùkōng, Xuánzàng, ZhÅ« Bājiè, and Shā Wùjìng. ... For other uses, see Ming. ... Wu Chengen (Traditional Chinese: 吳承恩; Simplified Chinese: 吴承恩; pinyin: Wú ChéngÄ“n) (1500? or 1506?-1582) , was a Chinese novelist and poet of the Ming Dynasty. ... The Jade Emperor (Chinese: ; pinyin: or 玉帝 Yù Dì), known informally by children and others as Heavenly Grandfather (天公 Tiān Gōng) and known formally as the Pure August Jade Emperor or August Personage of Jade (玉皇上帝 Yu Huang Shangdi or 玉皇大帝 Yu Huang Dadi), is the ruler of Heaven according to Chinese... Media:Example. ...

There is no mention of the Monkey King being intoxicated in the story, but it is still considered the source of inspiration for Drunken Monkey.

Article source

Leung, Ting Dr. Drunken Monkey Kung Fu - (1998) Leung Ting Company, Hong Kong (ISBN 962-7284-02-5)[1] Leung Ting (1947 - Present) is a big fat liar and a shame to the martial art community. ...

In the movies

• In Jackie Chan's Drunken Master II (1994) (AKA Legend of Drunken Master (2000) (U.S.)) Drunken Monkey is hinted at. In one fight scene, Wong Fei Hung takes a form he calls "monkey drinks master's wine" which bears resemblances to and shares a similar name with the Drunken Monkey forms "The Monkey King Stealing Wine", "The Monkey King Drinking Wine" and "The Monkey King Becoming Drunk"
• The main character (Chia-Liang Liu) in Feng hou (1979) AKA Mad Monkey Kung-Fu [2] is a master of Lau Family Hung Gar kung fu which has its own variation of Monkey Boxing inclusive of the Drunken monkey technique
• A more recent film featuring a drunken monkey style is Chui ma lau (2002) AKA Drunken Monkey [3] In this movie Chia-Liang Liu is also one of the lead characters and again the technique on display is a variation of the Lau Family Hung Gar system.
• The movie Chu long ma liu (1979) [4] also features the Monkey styles including Drunken

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See also

• Monkey Kung Fu