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Plum Blossom Hands (梅花手拳) — Seven Star Mantis
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梅花手拳 (Méihuā Shǒu Quán, "Plum Blossom Hands") is a 32-posture hand-method form of Seven Star Praying Mantis, published by Wong Hon Fan (黃漢勛) in 1947, Luo Guangyu line. One of the branch's Plum Blossom (梅花) sets — companion to the longer Plum Blossom Fists — it drills the hooking, threading, and filling-punch vocabulary in the rounded, scattering pattern the plum-blossom image names.
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 | 登山右反掌 | Mountain-Climbing Right Reverse Palm |
4 | 穿手漏撇掌 | Threading Hand Leaking Flinging Palm |
5 | 引針右腰斬 | Threading-the-Needle Right Waist-Cut |
6 | 引針左腰斬 | Threading-the-Needle Left Waist-Cut |
7 | 登山右圈捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Circling Punch |
8 | 登山右挫捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Grinding Punch |
9 | 入環右腰斬 | Entering-the-Ring Right Waist-Cut |
10 | 雙封手揪腿 | Double Sealing Hands Seizing-Leg Sweep |
11 | 偷步反封手 | Stealing Step Reverse Sealing Hands |
12 | 雙封手扑腿 | Double Sealing Hands Pouncing Leg |
13 | 呑塌低牽勢 | Swallowing Press Low-Pull Stance |
14 | 進式大番車 | Advancing Large Wheeling |
15 | 右漏掌軋腿 | Right Leaking Palm Crushing Leg |
16 | 撤步左統捶 | Withdrawing Step Left Governing Punch |
17 | 呑塌右補捶 | Swallowing Press Right Filling Punch |
18 | 登山右崩捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Avalanche Punch |
19 | 右閉門腿法 | Right Closing-the-Door Kick |
20 | 跨虎右挑掌 | Riding-the-Tiger Right Lifting Palm |
21 | 囘身刁踢腿 | Returning Body Hooking Snapping Kick |
22 | 圈捶連環腿 | Circling Punch Linked Ring Leg |
23 | 入環右仰膀 | Entering-the-Ring Right Upturned Forearm |
24 | 七星左刁手 | Seven-Star Left Hooking Hand |
25 | 七星右補捶 | Seven-Star Right Filling Punch |
26 | 登山右挫捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Grinding Punch |
27 | 穿手右劈軋 | Threading Hand Right Chop-and-Crush |
28 | 入環右滾手 | Entering-the-Ring Right Rolling Hand |
29 | 進式右漏掌 | Advancing Right Leaking Palm |
30 | 撤式左統捶 | Withdrawing Left Governing Punch |
31 | 馬式右補捶 | Horse-Stance Right Filling Punch |
32 | 跨虎捕蟬式 | Riding-the-Tiger Catching Cicada Posture |
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
Plum Blossom Fists (梅花拳) — the principal Plum Blossom set
Sources
[1] Wong Hon Fan (黃漢勛), 梅花手拳 (Seven Star Praying Mantis, Luo Guangyu line; 1947) — the source manual for the posture sequence and its numbering.
[2] Paul Brennan, Plum Blossom Hands — 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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