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title: Plum Blossom Hands (梅花手拳) — Seven Star Mantis
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**梅花手拳 (Méihuā Shǒu Quán, "Plum Blossom Hands")** is a **32-posture** hand-method 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. One of the branch's Plum Blossom (梅花) sets — companion to the longer [Plum Blossom Fists](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/plum-blossom-fists) — it drills the hooking, threading, and filling-punch vocabulary in the rounded, scattering pattern the plum-blossom image names.

## 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 | 四平雙蓄勢 | Level Double-Storing Stance |
| 2 | 七星右補捶 | Seven-Star Right Filling Punch |
| 3 | 登山右反掌 | Mountain-Climbing Right Reverse Palm |
| 4 | 穿手漏撇掌 | Threading Hand Leaking Flinging Palm |
| 5 | 引針右腰斬 | Threading-the-Needle Right Waist-Cut |
| 6 | 引針左腰斬 | Threading-the-Needle Left Waist-Cut |
| 7 | 登山右圈捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Circling Punch |
| 8 | 登山右挫捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Grinding Punch |
| 9 | 入環右腰斬 | Entering-the-Ring Right Waist-Cut |
| 10 | 雙封手揪腿 | Double Sealing Hands Seizing-Leg Sweep |
| 11 | 偷步反封手 | Stealing Step Reverse Sealing Hands |
| 12 | 雙封手扑腿 | Double Sealing Hands Pouncing Leg |
| 13 | 呑塌低牽勢 | Swallowing Press Low-Pull Stance |
| 14 | 進式大番車 | Advancing Large Wheeling |
| 15 | 右漏掌軋腿 | Right Leaking Palm Crushing Leg |
| 16 | 撤步左統捶 | Withdrawing Step Left Governing Punch |
| 17 | 呑塌右補捶 | Swallowing Press Right Filling Punch |
| 18 | 登山右崩捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Avalanche Punch |
| 19 | 右閉門腿法 | Right Closing-the-Door Kick |
| 20 | 跨虎右挑掌 | Riding-the-Tiger Right Lifting Palm |
| 21 | 囘身刁踢腿 | Returning Body Hooking Snapping Kick |
| 22 | 圈捶連環腿 | Circling Punch Linked Ring Leg |
| 23 | 入環右仰膀 | Entering-the-Ring Right Upturned Forearm |
| 24 | 七星左刁手 | Seven-Star Left Hooking Hand |
| 25 | 七星右補捶 | Seven-Star Right Filling Punch |
| 26 | 登山右挫捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Grinding Punch |
| 27 | 穿手右劈軋 | Threading Hand Right Chop-and-Crush |
| 28 | 入環右滾手 | Entering-the-Ring Right Rolling Hand |
| 29 | 進式右漏掌 | Advancing Right Leaking Palm |
| 30 | 撤式左統捶 | Withdrawing Left Governing Punch |
| 31 | 馬式右補捶 | Horse-Stance Right Filling Punch |
| 32 | 跨虎捕蟬式 | Riding-the-Tiger Catching Cicada Posture |

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  **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, [*Plum Blossom Hands*](https://brennantranslation.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/plum-blossom-hands/)
  - **Video:** none lineage-credible located yet (see the [Mantis Video index](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/mantis-video)).
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## 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="bung-bu-quan" text="Bung Bu (崩步拳) — the foundation form" />

<PageRef space="notes" slug="plum-blossom-fists" text="Plum Blossom Fists (梅花拳) — the principal Plum Blossom set" />

## Sources

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

**[2]** Paul Brennan, [*Plum Blossom Hands*](https://brennantranslation.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/plum-blossom-hands/) — 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.