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title: Six-Harmony Fist (六合拳) — Six-Harmony Mantis
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**六合拳 (Liùhé Quán, "Six-Harmony Fist"** — also **六合雙錦拳**) is a **compact 20-posture set** of [**Six-Harmony Praying Mantis**](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/six-harmony-mantis) (張詳三 line), recorded in Zhang Xiangsan's *六合拳釋義*. A short, complete routine — throat-lock fist (鎖口拳), cross chop (十字劈), linked chopping (連環劈), the snapping-and-kicking answers — closing on **童子拜觀音 ("the boy worships Guanyin")**.

## What it trains

- **A compact whole** — the six-harmony method in twenty postures
- **鎖口拳 (throat-lock fist)** — the branch's seizing entry as a fist
- **連環劈 / 十字劈** — linked and cross chopping
- **童子拜觀音** — the quiet closing posture

## Full posture script — 20 postures

The posture-name list (六合拳 / 六合雙錦拳) 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.

| # | 中文 | Working gloss |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 鎖口拳 | Throat-lock fist |
| 2 | 十字劈 | Cross chop |
| 3 | 連環劈 | Linked chopping |
| 4 | 崩拳踹脚 | Avalanche, fist, side-kick, kick |
| 5 | 底漏圈 | Low-leaking, circling |
| 6 | 逼接手 | Pressing in, receiving, hand |
| 7 | 雙封踹肋 | Double seal, side-kick the ribs |
| 8 | 左連環劈 | Left, linked chopping |
| 9 | 右起膝踹脚 | Right, raise the knee, side-kick, kick |
| 10 | 右連環劈 | Right, linked chopping |
| 11 | 左起膝踹脚 | Left, raise the knee, side-kick, kick |
| 12 | 戮腿 | Piercing leg |
| 13 | 震步盤肘 | Stamping step, coiling elbow |
| 14 | 起膝進步掛耳圈 | Raise the knee, advancing, hook-the-ear circle |
| 15 | 窩肚捶 | Belly punch |
| 16 | 掃邊手 | Side-sweeping hand |
| 17 | 捧合手 | Cupping-and-joining hands |
| 18 | 太陽圈 | The sun circle |
| 19 | 子母鎖口捶 | Mother-and-child throat-lock, punch |
| 20 | 童子拜觀音 | The boy worships Guanyin |

## 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 this **六合拳** — a short, self-contained routine recorded in Zhang Xiangsan's *六合拳釋義*. The six core sequences each share the same closing run: **進步跺腳 → 破膝 → 掛耳圈**.

## Videos

- [Six-Harmony Mantis demonstration (六合拳)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xni0reftoao) — from the 張詳三-line lineage archive (6h-mantis.org / YouTube)

## See also

<PageRef space="notes" slug="six-harmony-mantis" text="六合螳螂 Six-Harmony Mantis — the branch, lineage, and character" />

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

<PageRef space="notes" slug="mantis-forms" text="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 (六合拳 / 六合雙錦拳), 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.