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title: Large Frame Postures (大架式拳) — Seven Star Mantis
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**大架式拳 (Dà Jiàshì Quán, "Large-Frame Postures")** is a **42-posture** empty-hand 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. The **"large frame" (大架)** is the expansive-stance training set — long, extended postures that build reach, rooting, and structure — and is the open-frame half of a pair with the compact **小架式拳 (Small-Frame Postures)**.
## 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 | 封掌中平式 | Sealing Palm Mid Level Posture |
| 2 | 刁手右撑掌 | Hooking Hand Right Bracing Palm |
| 3 | 刁手左撑掌 | Hooking Hand Left Bracing Palm |
| 4 | 刁手右挑掌 | Hooking Hand Right Lifting Palm |
| 5 | 刁手左挑掌 | Hooking Hand Left Lifting Palm |
| 6 | 刁掌跨虎式 | Hooking Palm Riding-the-Tiger Posture |
| 7 | 登山封統捶 | Mountain-Climbing Sealing Governing Punch |
| 8 | 統捶十字腿 | Governing Punch Cross Leg |
| 9 | 馬式偷心捶 | Horse-Stance Heart-Stealing Punch |
| 10 | 囘身刁踢腿 | Returning Body Hooking Snapping Kick |
| 11 | 圈捶連環腿 | Circling Punch Linked Ring Leg |
| 12 | 入環右仰膀 | Entering-the-Ring Right Upturned Forearm |
| 13 | 七星左刁手 | Seven-Star Left Hooking Hand |
| 14 | 七星右補捶 | Seven-Star Right Filling Punch |
| 15 | 登山右挫捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Grinding Punch |
| 16 | 馬式直統捶 | Horse-Stance Straight Governing Punch |
| 17 | 登山右挫捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Grinding Punch |
| 18 | 馬式直統捶 | Horse-Stance Straight Governing Punch |
| 19 | 登山右挫捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Grinding Punch |
| 20 | 馬弍直統捶 | Horse-Stance Straight Governing Punch |
| 21 | 登山右挫捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Grinding Punch |
| 22 | 封手左揪腿 | Sealing Hands Left Seizing-Leg Sweep |
| 23 | 中式右叫圈 | Mid Posture Right Calling Circling |
| 24 | 登山上圈捶 | Mountain-Climbing Upper Circling Punch |
| 25 | 馬弍漏軋膝 | Horse-Stance Slip-and-Crush Knee |
| 26 | 登山右挫捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Grinding Punch |
| 27 | 入環右腰斬 | Entering-the-Ring Right Waist-Cut |
| 28 | 登山右反掌 | Mountain-Climbing Right Reverse Palm |
| 29 | 雙封手蹬𨁏 | Double Sealing Hands Stamping Kick |
| 30 | 登山封統捶 | Mountain-Climbing Sealing Governing Punch |
| 31 | 馬式右屯掌 | Horse-Stance Right Massing Palm |
| 32 | 登山右崩捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Avalanche Punch |
| 33 | 右閉門脚法 | Right Closing-the-Door Kick |
| 34 | 跨虎右挑掌 | Riding-the-Tiger Right Lifting Palm |
| 35 | 撤退三轆轆 | Withdrawing Retreating Triple Windlass |
| 36 | 轉身雙綑腿 | Turning Body Double Binding Leg |
| 37 | 跨虎左挑掌 | Riding-the-Tiger Left Lifting Palm |
| 38 | 跨虎右挑掌 | Riding-the-Tiger Right Lifting Palm |
| 39 | 進式大番車 | Advancing Large Wheeling |
| 40 | 撤步大番車 | Withdrawing Step Large Wheeling |
| 41 | 轉身反揪腿 | Turning Body Reverse Seizing-Leg Sweep |
| 42 | 跨虎左挑掌 | Riding-the-Tiger Left Lifting Palm |
**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, [*Large-Scale Postures*](https://brennantranslation.wordpress.com/2019/07/31/large-scale-postures/)
- **Video:** none lineage-credible located yet (see the [Mantis Video index](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/mantis-video)).
## See also
## Sources
**[1]** **Wong Hon Fan (黃漢勛)**, *大架式拳* (Seven Star Praying Mantis, Luo Guangyu line; 1947) — the source manual for the posture sequence and its numbering.
**[2]** Paul Brennan, [*Large-Scale Postures*](https://brennantranslation.wordpress.com/2019/07/31/large-scale-postures/) — 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.