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title: Drunken Luohan (醉羅漢拳) — Seven Star Mantis
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**醉羅漢拳 (Zuì Luóhàn Quán, "Drunken Luohan Boxing")** is the **drunken-boxing form** of [**Seven Star Praying Mantis**](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/seven-star-mantis), published by [**Wong Hon Fan (黃漢勛)**](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/wong-hon-fan) in **1947**, Luo Guangyu line. A **40-posture** set built on the *zuiquan* (醉拳) principle of **"drunk yet not drunk" (似醉非醉)** — the body staggers, tilts, and seems about to fall, while every wobble hides a precise mantis strike. Its posture names read like a drinking story: raising the cup (舉杯), toasting (敬酒), reeling but steadying (欲跌還穩), feigning retreat while truly advancing (似退實進).

## 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 | 中平拱手讓座 | Level stance, cup the hands and offer the seat |
| 2 | 脱拷勢雙墜捶 | Shaking off the shackles, double dropping punch |
| 3 | 馬式舉杯敬酒 | Horse stance, raise the cup to toast |
| 4 | 醉酒欲跌還穩 | Drunk — about to fall, yet steadying |
| 5 | 登山封手統捶 | Mountain-climbing, sealing hand, governing punch |
| 6 | 封手十字腿法 | Sealing hand, cross kick |
| 7 | 蹤跳雙飛腿法 | Leaping double flying kick |
| 8 | 右旋風腿舉杯 | Right whirlwind kick, raise the cup |
| 9 | 醉酒似退實進 | Drunk — seeming to retreat, truly advancing |
| 10 | 醉酒似退實進 | Drunk — seeming to retreat, truly advancing |
| 11 | 醉酒似退實進 | Drunk — seeming to retreat, truly advancing |
| 12 | 醉酒欲斜還正 | Drunk — about to topple, yet righting |
| 13 | 雙封手右蹬腿 | Double sealing hands, right stamping kick |
| 14 | 臥地雙輾腿法 | Lying on the ground, double grinding leg-sweep |
| 15 | 翻身左掃腿法 | Turn the body, left sweeping kick |
| 16 | 翻身右掃腿法 | Turn the body, right sweeping kick |
| 17 | 臥虎欲起還跌 | Crouching tiger — about to rise, yet dropping |
| 18 | 翻身大滾突圍 | Turn the body, great roll, breaking out of the encirclement |
| 19 | 右旋風腿舉杯 | Right whirlwind kick, raise the cup |
| 20 | 醉酒欲轉還止 | Drunk — about to turn, yet halting |
| 21 | 醉酒欲轉還止 | Drunk — about to turn, yet halting |
| 22 | 捧酒過景陽崗 | Bearing the wine across Jingyang Ridge |
| 23 | 騎馬掛手統捶 | Riding-horse, hanging hand, governing punch |
| 24 | 登山左劈捶法 | Mountain-climbing, left chopping punch |
| 25 | 登山右劈捶法 | Mountain-climbing, right chopping punch |
| 26 | 登山左劈捶法 | Mountain-climbing, left chopping punch |
| 27 | 登山右劈捶法 | Mountain-climbing, right chopping punch |
| 28 | 撲腿掛手掃捶 | Pouncing leg, hanging hand, sweeping punch |
| 29 | 封手登山揷掌 | Sealing hand, mountain-climbing, inserting palm |
| 30 | 翻身封手叠肘 | Turn the body, sealing hand, stacked elbow |
| 31 | 欲起先落敬酒 | About to rise, first dropping — a toast |
| 32 | 飄步騎馬献酒 | Drifting step, riding-horse, presenting the wine |
| 33 | 翻身右旋風腿 | Turn the body, right whirlwind kick |
| 34 | 凌空臥下輾腿 | Leap up, drop to the ground, grinding leg-sweep |
| 35 | 翻身左掃腿法 | Turn the body, left sweeping kick |
| 36 | 翻身右掃腿法 | Turn the body, right sweeping kick |
| 37 | 翻身大滾突圍 | Turn the body, great roll, breaking out of the encirclement |
| 38 | 右旋風腿舉杯 | Right whirlwind kick, raise the cup |
| 39 | 拱拳中平歸座 | Cup the fist, level stance, return to the seat |
| 40 | 脱拷勢雙墜捶 | Shaking off the shackles, double dropping punch (closing) |

<Callout type="info">
  **Script and full text.** The posture-name list above is the form's skeleton, from Wong Hon Fan's manual. For the **complete move-by-move text** — Wong's explanation (說明) and application (功用) for every posture, with the original photographs — see Paul Brennan's open translation, which the wiki links rather than reproduces:
  - **Script:** Paul Brennan, [*Drunken Luohan*](https://brennantranslation.wordpress.com/2018/02/13/drunken-luohan/)
  - **Video:** none lineage-credible located yet (see the [Mantis Video index](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/mantis-video)).
</Callout>

## The drunken theme

Drunken boxing trades on deception: the staggering, the reeling, the near-falls are bait, and the strike lands from inside the wobble. Posture 22, **捧酒過景陽崗 ("bearing the wine across Jingyang Ridge")**, names the most famous drunken-hero scene in Chinese literature — **Wu Song (武松)** drinking eighteen bowls and then killing a tiger bare-handed on Jingyang Ridge in *Water Margin (水滸傳)*. The set's "Luohan (羅漢)" framing places it in the Shaolin arhat tradition the [Eighteen Luohan Exercises](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/luohan-gong) also draw on.

## See also

<PageRef space="notes" slug="seven-star-mantis" text="Seven Star Mantis (七星螳螂) — the branch this form belongs to" />

<PageRef space="notes" slug="mantis-forms" text="Mantis Forms — the script-and-video map of every form" />

<PageRef space="notes" slug="luohan-gong" text="Luohan Gong (羅漢功) — the Eighteen Luohan Exercises" />

<PageRef space="notes" slug="bung-bu-quan" text="Bung Bu (崩步拳) — the foundation form" />

## Sources

**[1]** **Wong Hon Fan (黃漢勛)**, *醉羅漢拳* (Seven Star Praying Mantis, Luo Guangyu line; 1947) — the source manual for the posture sequence and its numbering.

**[2]** Paul Brennan, [*Drunken Luohan*](https://brennantranslation.wordpress.com/2018/02/13/drunken-luohan/) — 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.