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Linked Brocade (連環錦套) — Seven Star Mantis
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連環錦套 (Liánhuán Jǐntào, "Linked Brocade") is one of the longer core empty-hand forms of Seven Star Praying Mantis — 55 postures in the published canon of Wong Hon Fan (黃漢勛), Luo Guangyu line. The name says the method: 連環 ("linked chains") + 錦套 ("a brocade set") — a long, unbroken routine that drills the linking of the branch's vocabulary (hooking hands, rolling forearms, waist-cuts, filling and avalanche punches, closing-the-door kicks) into continuous, flowing combinations.
The form — move-by-move (拳譜)
The posture sequence as numbered in Wong Hon Fan's manual (第一式 … ), each Chinese name with a plain English gloss:
# | 式 (中文) | English |
|---|---|---|
1 | 四平雙蓄勢 | Level Double-Storing Stance |
2 | 七星右補捶 | Seven-Star Right Filling Punch |
3 | 登山右挫捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Grinding Punch |
4 | 七星右腰斬 | Seven-Star Right Waist-Cut |
5 | 撇掌右揪腿 | Flinging Palm Right Seizing-Leg Sweep |
6 | 入環右滾膀 | Entering-the-Ring Right Rolling Forearm |
7 | 入環窩肚捶 | Entering-the-Ring Belly Punch |
8 | 右亮翅踢腿 | Right Flashing-Wings Snapping Kick |
9 | 跨虎右挑掌 | Riding-the-Tiger Right Lifting Palm |
10 | 雙刁手踢腿 | Double Hooking Hand Snapping Kick |
11 | 入環右仰膀 | Entering-the-Ring Right Upturned Forearm |
12 | 七星左刁手 | Seven-Star Left Hooking Hand |
13 | 七星右劈軋 | Seven-Star Right Chop-and-Crush |
14 | 登山右仰膀 | Mountain-Climbing Right Upturned Forearm |
15 | 登山右圈捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Circling Punch |
16 | 登山右仰膀 | Mountain-Climbing Right Upturned Forearm |
17 | 入環左滾膀 | Entering-the-Ring Left Rolling Forearm |
18 | 七星右崩捶 | Seven-Star Right Avalanche Punch |
19 | 右低牽蹬𨁏 | Right Low-Pull Stamping Kick |
20 | 登山左統捶 | Mountain-Climbing Left Governing Punch |
21 | 馬式右補捶 | Horse-Stance Right Filling Punch |
22 | 登山右崩捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Avalanche Punch |
23 | 右閉門腳法 | Right Closing-the-Door Kick |
24 | 跨虎右挑掌 | Riding-the-Tiger Right Lifting Palm |
25 | 扭步低掃捶 | Twisting-Step Low Sweeping Punch |
26 | 低掃捶撩腿 | Low Sweeping Punch Lifting Kick |
27 | 入環右仰膀 | Entering-the-Ring Right Upturned Forearm |
28 | 登山掛統捶 | Mountain-Climbing Hanging Governing Punch |
29 | 右劈左軋腳 | Right Chop Left Crushing Kick |
30 | 登山左統捶 | Mountain-Climbing Left Governing Punch |
31 | 馬式右補捶 | Horse-Stance Right Filling Punch |
32 | 雙刁右揪腿 | Double Hooking Right Seizing-Leg Sweep |
33 | 七星右腰斬 | Seven-Star Right Waist-Cut |
34 | 登山左圈捶 | Mountain-Climbing Left Circling Punch |
35 | 登山左崩捶 | Mountain-Climbing Left Avalanche Punch |
36 | 七星左刁手 | Seven-Star Left Hooking Hand |
37 | 七星右補捶 | Seven-Star Right Filling Punch |
38 | 登山右崩捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Avalanche Punch |
39 | 右閉門腳法 | Right Closing-the-Door Kick |
40 | 跨虎右挑掌 | Riding-the-Tiger Right Lifting Palm |
41 | 進式磨盤手 | Advancing Millstone Hand |
42 | 進式磨盤手 | Advancing Millstone Hand |
43 | 穿手右撇掌 | Threading Hand Right Flinging Palm |
44 | 撤式左統捶 | Withdrawing Left Governing Punch |
45 | 登山右疊肘 | Mountain-Climbing Right Stacked Elbow |
46 | 七星大撤式 | Seven-Star Great Withdrawing |
47 | 七星式低劈 | Seven-Star Posture Low Chop |
48 | 走跳高挑手 | Leap-Step High Lifting Hand |
49 | 七星右補捶 | Seven-Star Right Filling Punch |
50 | 跨虎上截捶 | Riding-the-Tiger Upper Intercepting Punch |
51 | 截捶右撩腿 | Intercepting Punch Right Lifting Kick |
52 | 入環右滾膀 | Entering-the-Ring Right Rolling Forearm |
53 | 引針右腰斬 | Threading-the-Needle Right Waist-Cut |
54 | 雙刁右圈腳 | Double Hooking Right Circling Kick |
55 | 跨虎右挑掌 | Riding-the-Tiger Right Lifting Palm |
See also
Seven Star Mantis (七星螳螂) — the branch this form 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), 連環錦套 (Seven Star Praying Mantis, Luo Guangyu line) — the source manual for the posture sequence and its numbering.
[2] Paul Brennan, Linked Brocade Boxing — the open English translation of Wong's full text (in copyright; linked, not reproduced). The posture-name list here is given under fair-use citation with the wiki's own glosses.
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