Luohan Gong (羅漢功) — the Eighteen Luohan Exercises

羅漢功 (Luóhàn Gōng, "Luohan Skill") — the Eighteen Luohan Exercises — is the conditioning and body-method foundation of Seven Star Praying Mantis in the canon of Wong Hon Fan (黃漢勛), Luo Guangyu line. Drawn from the classical Luohan / Yijinjing tradition of the Shaolin temple, its eighteen named exercises (仙人拱手, 韋陀献杵, 鐵牛耕地 …) build the rooting, breath, and whole-body strength on which the empty-hand forms rest — the "internal" half of the curriculum that sits beneath Bung Bu and the rest.

The set — the eighteen exercises (拳譜)

The exercise sequence as set down in Wong Hon Fan's manual (第一路 … ), each Chinese name with a plain English gloss:

See also

Seven Star Mantis (七星螳螂) — the branch this set belongs to

Mantis Forms — the script-and-video map of every form

Bung Bu (崩步拳) — the foundation form

Sources

[1] Wong Hon Fan (黃漢勛), 羅漢功 (Seven Star Praying Mantis, Luo Guangyu line) — the source manual for the exercise sequence and its numbering.

[2] Paul Brennan, The Eighteen Luohan Exercises according to Wong Hon Fan — the open English translation of Wong's full text (in copyright; linked, not reproduced). The name list here is given under fair-use citation with the wiki's own glosses.