[1] It is an ancient style and its origins are mainly traced back to the Buddhist and Daoist religious communities.

Hitting, grappling, locking, dodging, feinting, ground and aerial fighting and all other sophisticated methods of combat are incorporated.

[3] The Bā yǐng quán (八影拳) lineage from Henan attributes its wine boxing to the Shaolin Kung Fu style.

[citation needed] Drunken boxing is not a single martial art with an established lineage and hierarchy, but rather a group of loosely related kung fu styles.

At the beginning of the Tang dynasty (618–907 AD), 13 monks from the Shaolin temple intervened in a great war to help Li Shimin against rebel forces.

It is said that a famous martial artist named Liu Qizan accidentally killed a person and sought refuge in Shaolin to avoid trial and to repent.

Drunken luohan methods in Shaolin kung fu do not appear only in zui quan, but in some other styles as well.

Movement is initiated in the dan tian area, and moves through the body distally towards the hands and feet.

Movement in drunken boxing is relatively unique among martial arts in the frequency and degree in which it deviates from vertical posture, with the torso bent and twisted in all directions.

[25] Many aspects of drunken boxing are specialized towards deception: continuous bobbing and weaving and slipping, feigning instability and lack of focus, attacking from unusual angles and seemingly weak positions, sudden changes of momentum, compounding multiple attacks with the same limb, use of blind-spots and visual distractions, changing game plans in mid-fight and employing concealed or improvised weapons.

Like many styles of kung fu, drunken boxing employs a wide variety of attacks, including striking, chin na and wrestling, with trapping range fighting as a default skill.

27,^ Drunken Kung Fu – White Wine Form (Baijiu Quan) – Cyril Nolgrove CAMC (video).