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title: Liuhe Double Sabers (六合雙刀) — the Six-Harmony Double Sabers
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The **Six-Harmony Double Sabers** (**六合雙刀**, *Liùhé Shuāngdāo*) is the **paired-saber (雙刀)** form of [**Seven Star Praying Mantis**](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/seven-star-mantis). Recorded by [**Wong Hon Fan**](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/wong-hon-fan) (Hong Kong, September 1956, as Volume 13 of his Northern Mantis Boxing series), the set runs to **38 postures**. It applies the **"six harmonies" (六合)** coordination principle to two short blades at once — the same liuhe logic as the [staff form](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/mantis-liuhe-staff), now demanding that the two hands work independently yet in concert.

## Character

Double sabers are an intermediate-to-advanced weapon: each hand carries its own blade, and the form trains the two to spread, cross, chop, and cover on separate lines without fouling one another. The mantis qualities — sticking, hooking, the continuous change of angle — appear here as the blades weave around the centerline, one defending while the other cuts. Solid empty-hand footwork and the single-saber method are assumed before this set is taught.

## Representative postures

A selection from the 38 (the full sequence is in Wong Hon Fan's manual, translated in full by Brennan — linked below):

| 中文 | English |
| --- | --- |
| 中平持刀式 | Standing Stably, Holding the Sabers |
| 跨虎分刀式 | Sitting-Tiger Stance, Spreading the Sabers |
| 探海雙橫刀 | Searching the Sea with Double Sideways Sabers |
| 大轉右花刀 | Large Turn, Right Flourish |
| 穿心上分刀 | Through-the-Center Kick, Spreading Above |
| 坐盤迎劈刀 | Sitting-Twisted Stance, Block & Chop |
| 翻扑雙劈刀 | Turn Over, Reaching-Leg Stance, Double Chopping Sabers |
| 隻手捧雙刀 | One Hand Holding Up Both Sabers |

## See also

<PageRef space="notes" slug="yan-qing-single-saber" text="Yan Qing Single Saber (燕青單刀) — the single-saber form behind this paired set" />

<PageRef space="notes" slug="mantis-liuhe-staff" text="Mantis Liuhe Staff (螳螂六合棍) — the staff that shares the 'six harmonies' principle" />

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

<PageRef space="notes" slug="mantis-canon-english-translations" text="Mantis Canon — the full index of Wong Hon Fan forms in open English" />

<PageRef space="notes" slug="praying-mantis" text="Praying Mantis (螳螂拳) — the parent system" />

## Sources

**[1]** 黃漢勛 (Wong Hon Fan), *六合雙刀* (Hong Kong, 1956, Northern Mantis Boxing series vol. 13), Seven-Star Mantis line of Luo Guangyu — full open English translation by Paul Brennan: [Liuhe Double Sabers](https://brennantranslation.wordpress.com/2018/12/23/liuhe-double-sabers/). Brennan's translation is in copyright; linked, not reproduced.

**[2]** *Praying Mantis Master Wong Hon Fan Collection*, Chinese University of Hong Kong Library ([repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/collection/whf](https://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/collection/whf)).