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Six-Harmony Fist (六合拳) — Six-Harmony Mantis

Updated 2026-06-08
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六合拳 (Liùhé Quán, "Six-Harmony Fist" — also 六合雙錦拳) is a compact 20-posture set of Six-Harmony Praying Mantis (張詳三 line), recorded in Zhang Xiangsan's 六合拳釋義. A short, complete routine — throat-lock fist (鎖口拳), cross chop (十字劈), linked chopping (連環劈), the snapping-and-kicking answers — closing on 童子拜觀音 ("the boy worships Guanyin").

What it trains

  • A compact whole — the six-harmony method in twenty postures

  • 鎖口拳 (throat-lock fist) — the branch's seizing entry as a fist

  • 連環劈 / 十字劈 — linked and cross chopping

  • 童子拜觀音 — the quiet closing posture

Full posture script — 20 postures

The posture-name list (六合拳 / 六合雙錦拳) from the 張詳三 (Zhang Xiangsan) → 陳威伸 Taiwan Six-Harmony lineage, as published on the lineage site 6h-mantis.org, reproduced under fair-use citation; the English are the wiki's own working glosses. Six-Harmony movement names are descriptive and run longer than the tight four-character Seven-Star style.

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中文

Working gloss

1

鎖口拳

Throat-lock fist

2

十字劈

Cross chop

3

連環劈

Linked chopping

4

崩拳踹脚

Avalanche, fist, side-kick, kick

5

底漏圈

Low-leaking, circling

6

逼接手

Pressing in, receiving, hand

7

雙封踹肋

Double seal, side-kick the ribs

8

左連環劈

Left, linked chopping

9

右起膝踹脚

Right, raise the knee, side-kick, kick

10

右連環劈

Right, linked chopping

11

左起膝踹脚

Left, raise the knee, side-kick, kick

12

戮腿

Piercing leg

13

震步盤肘

Stamping step, coiling elbow

14

起膝進步掛耳圈

Raise the knee, advancing, hook-the-ear circle

15

窩肚捶

Belly punch

16

掃邊手

Side-sweeping hand

17

捧合手

Cupping-and-joining hands

18

太陽圈

The sun circle

19

子母鎖口捶

Mother-and-child throat-lock, punch

20

童子拜觀音

The boy worships Guanyin

Place in the curriculum

The 張詳三 Taiwan line teaches its empty-hand art as six core sequences (六趟) — 鐵齒 · 善手奔 · 鏡裡藏花 · 截手圈 · 葉底藏花 · 雙封 — alongside 六合短捶 and this 六合拳 — a short, self-contained routine recorded in Zhang Xiangsan's 六合拳釋義. The six core sequences each share the same closing run: 進步跺腳 → 破膝 → 掛耳圈.

Videos

See also

六合螳螂 Six-Harmony Mantis — the branch, lineage, and character

Praying Mantis (螳螂拳) — the parent system and branch tree

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

Sources

[1] The 張詳三 (Zhang Xiangsan) → 陳威伸 Taiwan Six-Harmony Mantis lineage, via the lineage site 6h-mantis.org — the published posture list (六合拳 / 六合雙錦拳), reproduced as a bare name-list under fair-use citation with the wiki's own glosses. Lineage: 魏德林 → 林世春 → 丁子成 → 張詳三.

[2] 六合螳螂拳, Chinese Wikipedia, and 徐紀 (Adam Hsu), 六合螳螂拳法述略 — for the branch's form inventory and "hidden-hard" (暗剛) character.