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title: Hidden Flower in the Mirror (鏡裡藏花) — Six-Harmony Mantis
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**鏡裡藏花 (Jìnglǐ Cáng Huā, "Hidden Flower in the Mirror")** is the **third core sequence** of [**Six-Harmony Praying Mantis**](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/six-harmony-mantis) (張詳三 line). The poetic name — a flower seen in a mirror, present yet untouchable — captures the branch's method of **concealment and sudden revelation**: the hidden-flower hand (藏花手) and trigger-release (撥機手), the eye-dotting strike (點睛), and the leaking circling punch (底漏圈捶).

## What it trains

- **藏花手 (hidden-flower hand)** — concealing the real attack behind a feint
- **點睛 (dot-the-eye)** and 撩陰 (rising groin) — precise small-target strikes
- **底漏 (low-leaking)** — slipping the hand underneath to circle up
- **The shared closing** — 進步跺腳 → 破膝 → 掛耳圈

## Full posture script — 33 postures

The posture-name list (鏡裡藏花) 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 | 左摟鎖口圈 | Left, scooping, throat-lock, circling |
| 2 | 左採右劈掌 | Left, seizing, right, chopping, palm |
| 3 | 進步右彈腿 | Advancing, right, snapping kick |
| 4 | 落步劈掛 | Dropping, step, chopping, hanging |
| 5 | 提步左踹腳 | Lifting step, left, side-kick |
| 6 | 轉身右摟左衝捶 | Turning the body, right, scooping, left, charging punch |
| 7 | 左摟右衝捶 | Left, scooping, right, charging punch |
| 8 | 轉身劈封 | Turning the body, chop-and-seal |
| 9 | 右彈腿 | Right, snapping kick |
| 10 | 落步叫掌 | Dropping, step, calling palm |
| 11 | 底漏圈捶 | Low-leaking circling punch |
| 12 | 左綑起膝右指路 | Left, binding, raise the knee, right, pointing the way |
| 13 | 落步雙幫肘 | Dropping, step, double bracing elbow |
| 14 | 轉身敗步雙封彈腿 | Turning the body, feigned-retreat step, double seal, snapping kick |
| 15 | 進步左綑劈封 | Advancing, left, binding, chop-and-seal |
| 16 | 轉身反背搜襠掌 | Turning the body, back-of-hand, groin-seeking palm |
| 17 | 掃面手 | Face-sweeping hand |
| 18 | 左綑指路撲面掌 | Left, binding, pointing the way, pouncing face palm |
| 19 | 右踹腳 | Right, side-kick |
| 20 | 右綑指路撲面掌 | Right, binding, pointing the way, pouncing face palm |
| 21 | 左踹腳 | Left, side-kick |
| 22 | 轉身連環劈 | Turning the body, linked chopping |
| 23 | 右彈腿 | Right, snapping kick |
| 24 | 落步叫掌 | Dropping, step, calling palm |
| 25 | 偷漏蹬撲指眼捶 | Stealing, leaking, stamping pounce, eye-poking punch |
| 26 | 左右展拍 | Left-and-right spreading slap |
| 27 | 勾摟捶 | Hook-and-scoop punch |
| 28 | 轉身連環拳 | Turning the body, linked fists |
| 29 | 左劈封 | Left, chop-and-seal |
| 30 | 右綑封 | Right, bind-and-seal |
| 31 | 進步跺腳 | Advancing, stamping foot |
| 32 | 破膝 | Break the knee |
| 33 | 掛耳圈 | Hook-the-ear circle |

## 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 third 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 (鏡裡藏花)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgK8RuGaI1U) — 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 (鏡裡藏花), 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.