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title: Six-Harmony Short Hammer (六合短捶) — Six-Harmony Mantis
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**六合短捶 (Liùhé Duǎn Chuí, "Six-Harmony Short Hammer")** is the branch's **short-range percussive form** — **50 postures** of close, sudden, short-power striking that show the "hidden-hard" (暗剛) issuing of [**Six-Harmony Praying Mantis**](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/six-harmony-mantis) (張詳三 line) at its most concentrated. It is rich in named postures: 浪裡滾沙 ("rolling the sand amid the waves"), 雙風貫耳 ("double wind pierces the ears"), 猛虎擺尾 ("the fierce tiger swings its tail"), 彎弓勒馬 ("bend the bow, rein the horse").

## What it trains

- **短 (short power)** — close-range, short-travel issuing, the branch's hallmark
- **The elbow vocabulary** — 獻肘, 盤肘, 頂心肘, 舔肘, 坐肘
- **Named image-postures** — 浪裡滾沙, 雙風貫耳, 猛虎擺尾, 彎弓勒馬, 猴蹬鷹
- **鐵炮開城 (×3)** — the repeated "iron cannon breaks the city-gate"

## Full posture script — 50 postures

The posture-name list (六合短捶 / 短捶) 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 | 攔截手 | Intercepting hand |
| 2 | 子母連環穿 | Mother-and-child linked threading |
| 3 | 左獻肘 | Left, offering elbow |
| 4 | 左右掛劈 | Left-and-right, hang-and-chop |
| 5 | 虎挫 | Tiger-grind |
| 6 | 雙肘 | Double elbow |
| 7 | 右捲左採 | Right, rolling, left, seizing |
| 8 | 轉身盤肘 | Turning the body, coiling elbow |
| 9 | 翻搜拖鉤 | Turning-seeking dragging hook |
| 10 | 左右翻搜拖鉤 | Left-and-right, turning-seeking dragging hook |
| 11 | 左右鐵炮開城 | Left-and-right, iron cannon breaks the city-gate |
| 12 | 轉身撩陰 | Turning the body, rising groin strike |
| 13 | 馬步鎖口 | Horse stance, throat-lock |
| 14 | 左右掛劈 | Left-and-right, hang-and-chop |
| 15 | 右破膝 | Right, break the knee |
| 16 | 掃眉手 | Sweeping, eyebrow, hand |
| 17 | 左右鐵炮開城 | Left-and-right, iron cannon breaks the city-gate |
| 18 | 轉身撩陰 | Turning the body, rising groin strike |
| 19 | 左右掛劈 | Left-and-right, hang-and-chop |
| 20 | 捧合手 | Cupping-and-joining hands |
| 21 | 雙風貫耳 | Double wind pierces the ears |
| 22 | 猛虎擺尾 | The fierce tiger swings its tail |
| 23 | 猴蹬鷹 | Monkey kicks, eagle strikes |
| 24 | 彎弓勒馬 | Bend the bow, rein the horse |
| 25 | 轉身盤肘 | Turning the body, coiling elbow |
| 26 | 翻身砸捶 | Turn-body smashing punch |
| 27 | 掛捶 | Hanging punch |
| 28 | 回身掛捶 | Turning back, hanging punch |
| 29 | 底漏獻肘 | Low-leaking, offering elbow |
| 30 | 十字捶 | Cross punch |
| 31 | 掛月背劍 | Hang the moon, sword at the back |
| 32 | 回身開弓 | Turn-body, draw the bow |
| 33 | 左右盤肘 | Left-and-right, coiling elbow |
| 34 | 左右浪裡滾沙 | Left-and-right, rolling the sand amid the waves |
| 35 | 回身舔肘 | Turning back, licking elbow |
| 36 | 轉身虎挫 | Turning the body, tiger-grind |
| 37 | 翻身衝捶 | Flipping the body, charging punch |
| 38 | 鑽拳捋袖 | Drilling fist, stroke the sleeve |
| 39 | 翻手進步撩陰 | Turning the hand, advancing, rising groin strike |
| 40 | 勾摟捶 | Hook-and-scoop punch |
| 41 | 勾摟頂心肘 | Hook-scoop, heart-butting elbow |
| 42 | 翻身砸捶 | Turn-body smashing punch |
| 43 | 進步虎挫 | Advancing, tiger-grind |
| 44 | 鐵炮開城 | Iron cannon breaks the city-gate |
| 45 | 背劍 | Back, sword |
| 46 | 左右圈捶破膝 | Left-and-right, circling punch, break the knee |
| 47 | 圈捲開弓 | Circling-roll, draw the bow |
| 48 | 回身鎖口 | Turning back, throat-lock |
| 49 | 左獻肘 | Left, offering elbow |
| 50 | 收式 | Closing form |

## 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**.  All six core sequences share the same closing run: **進步跺腳 → 破膝 → 掛耳圈**.

## Videos

- [Six-Harmony Mantis demonstration (六合短捶)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlazOjIehFs) — 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 (六合短捶 / 短捶), 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.