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title: Small Frame Postures (小架式拳) — Seven Star Mantis
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**小架式拳 (Xiǎo Jiàshì Quán, "Small-Frame Postures")** is a **38-posture** empty-hand 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. The **"small frame" (小架)** is the compact-stance training set — short, tight postures for close-range work — the close-frame counterpart to the expansive **大架式拳 (Large-Frame Postures)**.

## 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 | 背轉雙蓄勢 | Back Turning Double-Storing Stance |
| 2 | 入環右滾手 | Entering-the-Ring Right Rolling Hand |
| 3 | 進右漏手式 | Advancing Right Leaking Hand Posture |
| 4 | 入環右腰斬 | Entering-the-Ring Right Waist-Cut |
| 5 | 登山左圈捶 | Mountain-Climbing Left Circling Punch |
| 6 | 登山左崩捶 | Mountain-Climbing Left Avalanche Punch |
| 7 | 七星左刁手 | Seven-Star Left Hooking Hand |
| 8 | 七星右補捶 | Seven-Star Right Filling Punch |
| 9 | 雙封手扑腿 | Double Sealing Hands Pouncing Leg |
| 10 | 右前掃膛腿 | Right Front Sweeping Ground Leg |
| 11 | 左後掃膛腿 | Left Back Sweeping Ground Leg |
| 12 | 右前掃膛腿 | Right Front Sweeping Ground Leg |
| 13 | 七星雙刁手 | Seven-Star Double Hooking Hand |
| 14 | 入環雙屯掌 | Entering-the-Ring Double Massing Palm |
| 15 | 登山左揷掌 | Mountain-Climbing Left Inserting Palm |
| 16 | 登山右補捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Filling Punch |
| 17 | 蹤跳穿心腿 | Leaping Threading Heart Leg |
| 18 | 跌勢右叠肘 | Dropping-Posture Right Stacked Elbow |
| 19 | 七星雙擊掌 | Seven-Star Double Striking Palm |
| 20 | 進式反衝爪 | Advancing Reverse Charging Claw |
| 21 | 馬式反捕蟬 | Horse-Stance Reverse Catching Cicada |
| 22 | 橫圈大擺蓮 | Horizontal Circling Large Swinging Lotus |
| 23 | 登山掛統捶 | Mountain-Climbing Hanging Governing Punch |
| 24 | 登山封統捶 | Mountain-Climbing Sealing Governing Punch |
| 25 | 穿劈左軋脚 | Threading Chop Left Crushing Kick |
| 26 | 登山左統捶 | Mountain-Climbing Left Governing Punch |
| 27 | 劈軋右撩腿 | Chop-and-Crush Right Lifting Kick |
| 28 | 撤式反右掌 | Withdrawing Reverse Right Palm |
| 29 | 中式右叫圈 | Mid Posture Right Calling Circling |
| 30 | 登山上圈捶 | Mountain-Climbing Upper Circling Punch |
| 31 | 右抅摟採手 | Right Hooking Scooping Plucking Hand |
| 32 | 撤式左統捶 | Withdrawing Left Governing Punch |
| 33 | 馬式右補捶 | Horse-Stance Right Filling Punch |
| 34 | 右掠翅踢腿 | Right Wing-Brushing Snapping Kick |
| 35 | 登山左直統 | Mountain-Climbing Left Straight Governing Punch |
| 36 | 跨虎單鞭式 | Riding-the-Tiger Single Whip Posture |
| 37 | 雙封手圈脚 | Double Sealing Hands Circling Kick |
| 38 | 跨虎右挑掌 | Riding-the-Tiger Right Lifting Palm |

<Callout type="info">
  **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, [*Small-Scale Postures*](https://brennantranslation.wordpress.com/2019/07/31/small-scale-postures/)
  - **Video:** none lineage-credible located yet (see the [Mantis Video index](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/mantis-video)).
</Callout>

## 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" />

## Sources

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

**[2]** Paul Brennan, [*Small-Scale Postures*](https://brennantranslation.wordpress.com/2019/07/31/small-scale-postures/) — 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.