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Six-Harmony Short Hammer (六合短捶) — Six-Harmony Mantis

Updated 2026-06-08

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六合短捶 (Liùhé Duǎn Chuí, "Six-Harmony Short Hammer") is the branch's short-range percussive form — 50 postures of close, sudden, short-power striking that show the "hidden-hard" (暗剛) issuing of Six-Harmony Praying Mantis (張詳三 line) at its most concentrated. It is rich in named postures: 浪裡滾沙 ("rolling the sand amid the waves"), 雙風貫耳 ("double wind pierces the ears"), 猛虎擺尾 ("the fierce tiger swings its tail"), 彎弓勒馬 ("bend the bow, rein the horse").

What it trains

短 (short power) — close-range, short-travel issuing, the branch's hallmark
The elbow vocabulary — 獻肘, 盤肘, 頂心肘, 舔肘, 坐肘
Named image-postures — 浪裡滾沙, 雙風貫耳, 猛虎擺尾, 彎弓勒馬, 猴蹬鷹
鐵炮開城 (×3) — the repeated "iron cannon breaks the city-gate"

Full posture script — 50 postures

The posture-name list (六合短捶 / 短捶) 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.

#	中文	Working gloss
1	攔截手	Intercepting hand
2	子母連環穿	Mother-and-child linked threading
3	左獻肘	Left, offering elbow
4	左右掛劈	Left-and-right, hang-and-chop
5	虎挫	Tiger-grind
6	雙肘	Double elbow
7	右捲左採	Right, rolling, left, seizing
8	轉身盤肘	Turning the body, coiling elbow
9	翻搜拖鉤	Turning-seeking dragging hook
10	左右翻搜拖鉤	Left-and-right, turning-seeking dragging hook
11	左右鐵炮開城	Left-and-right, iron cannon breaks the city-gate
12	轉身撩陰	Turning the body, rising groin strike
13	馬步鎖口	Horse stance, throat-lock
14	左右掛劈	Left-and-right, hang-and-chop
15	右破膝	Right, break the knee
16	掃眉手	Sweeping, eyebrow, hand
17	左右鐵炮開城	Left-and-right, iron cannon breaks the city-gate
18	轉身撩陰	Turning the body, rising groin strike
19	左右掛劈	Left-and-right, hang-and-chop
20	捧合手	Cupping-and-joining hands
21	雙風貫耳	Double wind pierces the ears
22	猛虎擺尾	The fierce tiger swings its tail
23	猴蹬鷹	Monkey kicks, eagle strikes
24	彎弓勒馬	Bend the bow, rein the horse
25	轉身盤肘	Turning the body, coiling elbow
26	翻身砸捶	Turn-body smashing punch
27	掛捶	Hanging punch
28	回身掛捶	Turning back, hanging punch
29	底漏獻肘	Low-leaking, offering elbow
30	十字捶	Cross punch
31	掛月背劍	Hang the moon, sword at the back
32	回身開弓	Turn-body, draw the bow
33	左右盤肘	Left-and-right, coiling elbow
34	左右浪裡滾沙	Left-and-right, rolling the sand amid the waves
35	回身舔肘	Turning back, licking elbow
36	轉身虎挫	Turning the body, tiger-grind
37	翻身衝捶	Flipping the body, charging punch
38	鑽拳捋袖	Drilling fist, stroke the sleeve
39	翻手進步撩陰	Turning the hand, advancing, rising groin strike
40	勾摟捶	Hook-and-scoop punch
41	勾摟頂心肘	Hook-scoop, heart-butting elbow
42	翻身砸捶	Turn-body smashing punch
43	進步虎挫	Advancing, tiger-grind
44	鐵炮開城	Iron cannon breaks the city-gate
45	背劍	Back, sword
46	左右圈捶破膝	Left-and-right, circling punch, break the knee
47	圈捲開弓	Circling-roll, draw the bow
48	回身鎖口	Turning back, throat-lock
49	左獻肘	Left, offering elbow
50	收式	Closing form

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. All six core sequences share the same closing run: 進步跺腳 → 破膝 → 掛耳圈.

Videos

Six-Harmony Mantis demonstration (六合短捶) — from the 張詳三-line lineage archive (6h-mantis.org / YouTube)

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 (六合短捶 / 短捶), 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.

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Updated:: 2026-06-08