Intercepting-Hand Circle (截手圈) — Six-Harmony Mantis

截手圈 (Jié Shǒu Quān, "Intercepting-Hand Circle") is the fourth core sequence of Six-Harmony Praying Mantis (張詳三 line). It is the branch's circular intercepting form — cutting off the incoming hand on a circle rather than a line — and it carries the branch's own 六合翻車 (six-harmony rolling wheel), paired with the wipe-eyebrow hand (抺眉) and the dragging hooks (拖鈎).

What it trains

• Circular interception (截手圈) — meeting and turning the attack on a circle

• 六合翻車 — the branch's rolling-wheel turnover

• 抺眉手 (wipe-the-eyebrow hand) — the across-the-brow strike/cover

• 圈捲捶 (circling-rolling punch) and 底漏 — the form's percussive answers

Full posture script — 27 postures

The posture-name list (截手圈) 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 fourth 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 (截手圈) — 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 (截手圈), 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.