How many types of Mantis Fist are there? What are they?

Mantis Fist is mainly spread in Shandong Jiaodong. The three main schools are "Seven Stars", "Plum Blossom" and "Six Harmonies". Seven Stars Mantis Fist and Plum Blossom Mantis Fist are more similar in the combination structure of movements. The names of many routines, combinations of movements, and methods of attack and defense of these two types of Mantis Fist are similar.　

Seven Star Praying Mantis Fist is also known as Luohan Praying Mantis Fist.

Seven Stars Mantis Fist is also known as Rohan Mantis Fist. The name "Plum Blossom" mainly comes from the fact that Plum Blossom Mantis Fist is mainly concerned about the handful of moves, and it emphasizes on the linking of moves, three changes in one move, and the live for the top, and the high in case of returning, together with the flexible changes in footwork, which is better than the blossoms of plum blossoms opening up to the snow. Because of the "smooth force, skillful force and soft force", it is deeper than the Seven Star Mantis Boxing in the aspects of rigidity and flexibility, so some people call it Plum Blossom Mantis Boxing.

Shaolin Praying Mantis Fist is one of the authentic Shaolin Fist styles, which belongs to the Elephant Fist, and emphasizes the flexibility of the arm and elbow strikes with many variations, and the agility of the movements, and the rigidity and flexibility of each other. It is a combination of skillful fighting and body cultivation, and it can be utilized in a living way. With the teaching of actual combat, it can be used in attack and defense freely, and its practicality is even stronger!

The main schools are as follows: ①Seven Star Mantis Fist (also known as Luohan Mantis). The basic stance of this school is based on the "Seven Star Steps", and the strength is brittle, horizontal, and straight. The practice is divided into 3 parts: the first one is the basic skills, including waist, legs, shoulders, standing piles, patting skills, etc.; the second one is the set techniques, including small combinations and sets, which include inserting pounds, overturning carts, bouncing steps, intercepting, removing helmets, double inserting flowers, eighteen shuttles, filing steel, soft spirit, summaries, eighteen falls of nine turns of the praying mantis, white apes coming out of the holes, stealing peaches, presenting fruits, going into the holes, removing the hands to shoot the press, etc. The third one is the dismantling of the practice, which includes touching the piles, kicking and punching the sandbags, rehearsals, twelve pounds around the body, and scattering punches. Twelve pounds around the body, sparring and so on. ② Plum Blossom Mantis Fist (also known as Taiji Mantis). It emphasizes the handful of moves, the connection of moves, the three changes of a move, and is mainly based on living and meandering. The fish scale steps are flexible and changeable, just like plum blossoms. In terms of strength, the style emphasizes smoothness, cleverness and softness. The content of the practice is similar to that of Seven Star Mantis Boxing. The routines are: cartwheel, jumping step, intercepting, plum blossom road, white ape stealing peaches, eight elbows, passing skills, summary and so on. ③ Six Harmonies Praying Mantis Fist (also known as Horse Monkey Praying Mantis). It differs greatly from the first two schools, with movements and jin methods tending to be more soft. The Six Harmonies Mantis mainly absorbs the essentials of the inner three harmonies (the heart and the mind, the mind and the qi, the qi and the force) and the outer three harmonies (the hands and the feet, the elbows and the knees, and the shoulders and the hips) contained in the theories of the martial arts, and emphasizes that "change of will" leads to "change of form", and that the mind follows the body to take the strength of the human being as the strength, and to introduce the falling of the air, requiring that the movement and the method of strength be soft. It emphasizes the use of "intention to change" to lead "form to change", the idea of meeting the body and following the body, using the strength of the human being as the strength, introducing the fall of the air, requiring it to be alive like a machine wheel, round like a steel ball, up and down to follow each other, and internal and external unity. The strength is divided into five strengths: rigid, soft, bright, dark and slippery. The main routines are Short Hammer, Double Seal, Iron Thorn, Hidden Flower, Immortal Hands, Shining Light, Intercepting Hands Circle, Six Harmonious Abstracts, Ninety-Three Hands, and so on.

The Mantis Fist can be divided into Northern Praying Mantis and Southern Praying Mantis. The Northern Praying Mantis was spread in the Jiaodong area of Shandong Province, while the Southern Praying Mantis, also known as Zhoujia Praying Mantis, is rumored to have been founded by Zhou Yannan, a Guangdong man in the Qing Dynasty, and is similar to the Southern Praying Mantis schools. Mantis Fist has formed such schools as Liouhe Mantis Fist (also known as "Horse and Monkey Mantis Fist"), Seven Stars Mantis Fist (also known as "Luohan Mantis Fist"), Plum Blossom Mantis Fist (also known as "Taiji Mantis Fist"), Tongjia Mantis Fist, Wrestling Hand Mantis Fist, Light Board Mantis Fist, and Eight Steps Mantis Fist, etc. According to the form of power generation, Seven Star Mantis Fist is divided into two main styles: Seven Star Mantis Fist and Seven Star Mantis Fist. According to the form of force, Seven Star Praying Mantis and Plum Blossom Praying Mantis belong to "Hard Praying Mantis", while Six Harmonies Praying Mantis belongs to "Soft Praying Mantis".

Mantis Fist

The Southern Praying Mantis, also known as Zhou Family Praying Mantis, is rumored to have been founded by Zhou Yannan, a Guangdong man in the Qing Dynasty, whose techniques and theories are completely different from those of the Northern Praying Mantis, which was passed down from Shandong Province, while the techniques of the various schools of Southern Praying Mantis are very similar to those of the Southern Praying Mantis.

In addition to the above two schools of Mantis Fist, on the basis of the Northern School of Mantis and after many years of study or mixing with other styles of boxing, there are also through the arm Mantis Fist, wrestling Mantis Fist, light board Mantis Fist, eight steps Mantis Fist and so on. Although there are many schools of Mantis Fist, all of them emphasize the following: to take the meaning from the image, to take the meaning; to give equal importance to rigidity and softness, to be strong and extremely soft, to be elastic everywhere; to have both short and long, to alternate up and down, to connect inside and outside, to keep the integrity of the posture everywhere; to have the technique, the footwork, the legs, the bodywork to be close together and clever, to be steady and flexible, to seek the quickness in the living, to seek the stability in the fast, to seek the refinement in the stability. Praying Mantis Fist also emphasizes sinking shoulders, dropping elbows, living wrists, twisting the waist, sitting on the hips and buckling the knees, and the boxing proverb has the words "the waist sends the guest to go, the hips sit in the headquarters" and "moving on the legs and feet, the force is stored in the crotch and waist, blocking the rain and wind, the two arms are shaken". Its action requires quick eyes, quick hands, quick steps, quick body, quick style, a move into three strokes, long and short at the same time, the momentum is compelling, unpredictable; force, fast and sudden, loose and tight combination, rich in elasticity, to do just and not stiff, soft and not soft, brittle and not short, fast and not gross. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Mantis Fist was listed as a national martial arts performance and competition.

There are many schools of Mantis Fist, mainly Wang Lang's, which is divided into [Hard Mantis] (Seven Stars and Plum Blossom) and [Soft Mantis] (Six Harmonies). The former is strong and powerful, while the latter is gentle and gentle. After the Hard Mantis, the [Secret Door], [Wrestling Hand] and [Light Board] sects have been developed. In recent years, also founded [eight-歩螳螂拳], is by the seven stars school master Jiang Hua Long in the early years of the Republic of China (1912), in collaboration with [Bagua Quan] Wang Zhong Qing and [Xingyi Quan] [Tongbei Quan] Chen Mou and other three people created.

The Six Harmonies refer to the internal three harmonies (heart and mind, mind and gas, gas and force) and the external three harmonies (hands and feet, elbows and knees, shoulders and hips), and the Six Harmonies Praying Mantis Boxing is more serious and strict in its requirements of "leading shape changes with intent", and emphasizes the importance of being light and agile, supple and skillful, and requires that it is as alive as the wheel of a machine, as round as the ball of the rigid, and that it is as active as one movement, as static as another, and that both internal and external harmonies follow each other, and that both up and down follow each other. It requires that the upper and lower parts of the body follow each other, and the inner and outer parts of the body are united. Jin is mainly divided into five types: bright, dark, rigid, soft and slippery, with more obvious evolutionary characteristics from the formation of the combination of the Jin and the routines. There is a big difference in the combination structure of movements, set contents and practicing styles between Six-Harmony Mantis Boxing and Seven Stars Mantis Boxing and Plum Blossom Mantis Boxing, and there is a greater tendency to softness in the selection of rigidity and softness, so some people call it "Soft Mantis Boxing". Therefore, some people call it "Soft Mantis". The structure of the human body is different from the structure of the mantis, and the characteristics of the mantis in the human body should be refined into "boxing" to avoid "animalization", and it is necessary to "focus on the idea".