Hidden Flower Beneath the Leaf (葉底藏花) — Six-Harmony Mantis

葉底藏花 (Yèdǐ Cáng Huā, "Hidden Flower Beneath the Leaf") is the fifth core sequence of Six-Harmony Praying Mantis (張詳三 line) and the companion to the third-sequence Hidden Flower in the Mirror. The shortest of the six at 23 postures, it concentrates the hidden-flower method — 藏花手, 三把螳螂, the double chop (雙劈), the waist-blocking punch (攔腰捶) — into a compact, repeating set.

What it trains

• 藏花手 (hidden-flower hand) — the branch's signature concealment, here as the opening

• 三把螳螂 and 雙劈 — grabbing and double-chopping

• 攔腰捶 (waist-blocking punch) — the mid-line answer

• The shared closing — 進步跺腳 → 破膝 → 掛耳圈

Full posture script — 23 postures

The posture-name list (葉底藏花) 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.

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 六合拳. This is the fifth of the six. All six core sequences share the same closing run: 進步跺腳 → 破膝 → 掛耳圈.

Videos

• Six-Harmony Mantis demonstration (葉底藏花) — from the 張詳三-line lineage archive (6h-mantis.org / YouTube)

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 (葉底藏花), 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.