Mì Mén Tánglángquán (秘門螳螂拳)

Su Yu-Chang on Secret Door Preying Mantis [Mì Mén Tánglángquán] (秘門螳螂拳) == Reprinted by Grandfather Zhang Dekui's apprentice--Mr. Su Yuchang's article on introduction. Zhang Dekui developed Secret Door, It is a culmination of experience developed from exploring all the other Mantis Styles influence from; Seven Star, Eight Step, and Plum Flower to Including some rare ones such as LiuheTánglángquán and Mízōng Tánglángquán. T*àijí Tánglángquán (*太極螳螂拳); was particularly innovative as it showed the potential benefits of changing *Tánglángquán* into a more internal Martial Art, such as Bajiquan and Xingyiquan. One major goal of WuTan students is to achieve this level, Su Yu Chang continued the research and efforts, Now more commonly known as Baji-Tanglangquan or Baji Mantis.

## Secret's of Secret Door Mantis as Su Yu Chang described (1)

The only person who preached from the mainland of Taiwan's secret mantis boxing was the first teacher Zhang Dekui in Laiyang, Shandong. When he arrived in Taiwan, he lived in Dongshan, Tainan County. He first lived next to my house and moved to the opposite Bixuan Temple in two years. Because he didn't have to pay rent. For more than ten years, the entire ancient temple collapsed during the Great Jianan Earthquake. It happened that he went abroad to teach boxing, and his family was safe. Then he also lived nearby. He has been teaching in Dongshan Township and neighboring towns for many years. He made a living in the Department of Boxing and Traumatology, and moved to Taipei in his old age. His son Zhang Fukuan was raised by his brother. He died in Taipei in his 90s. He has a good skill, can lightly lift the vertical technique, finely capture the tendons and cut the veins, the hidden weapon poisoning medicine is also good, the teaching method is very slow. He teaches a trick that requires students to use this trick. The students can’t understand it. He personally shows them to the students. He often beats the students away from the distance. The head is bleeding and the bones are painful and the flesh is swollen for a few days. He bought injury medicine powder and healed it as soon as he took it. His medicine is very effective. He is not afraid of hurting students and students know that they can’t die. Therefore, our early brothers and sisters were able to fight and fight, and then there were people from all walks of life. , Has a lot of influence in society.

　　He taught Tanglangquan not to mention the branch system. Later, when I learned the eight-step Tanglangquan with the first teacher Wei Xiaotang and the seven-star plum blossom Tanglangquan with the first teacher Li Kunshan, the two of them looked at my Tanglangquan and told me that this is a secret. Men Tanglang Boxing is a technique taught as a secret selection of people in the Shandong Mantis Boxing system. There are not many people and it is impossible to misinform chaotic teachings. The reason is that this secret door Mantis boxing is specially designed for the Tanglang boxing, and the mantis punches quickly. The secret door is faster, and the mantis hand poison secret door is more cruel. Later, I returned to my hometown to ask Master Zhang Dekui to verify. He told me it was the secret door mantis boxing. He didn't say why he was afraid that people from the same door would bother him, and he was afraid that the same door would criticize him. Right or wrong, he came to Taiwan empty-handed and has a family to support. Therefore, it is impossible to obey the rules and choose the kind people to teach. It is better to keep his mouth in order to survive. It is also a last resort to change the times and mankind. The secret is proved by keeping his mouth in his mouth but teaching boxing scores throughout his life. Up.

## **Secret Door Mantis Main Song**

下面是 **秘門螳螂拳總要歌訣**

　　螳螂鬥螳螂 　　秘門有真傳　　 你快我短克 　　你靠我點破

　　鉤摟用提拿 　　番車迎轆轤 　　閃來我挪開 　　騰進我轉外

　　一肘遮半身 　　猿猴步法進 　　八剛十二柔 　　剛柔在我手

　　七長加八短 　　長短都無妨 　　全身秘了門 　　任意隨敵人

以上歌訣以後在"暗室明燈"內解述 請參考觀賞錄影帶"秘門螳螂拳"

## Secret Mantis Fist Explaining the Secret (2) - Su Yu Chang

Master Zhang Dekui’s life teaching boxing can be divided into three periods. The teaching method of the early fifteen years is the most conscientious to teach, and the teaching method is not kept secret for fear that the students will not learn. The teaching materials are rich and the teaching method is strict. The teaching method of the middle fifteen years is relatively reserved. It’s too easy to pass on the secret. He said that the times are accustomed to the deterioration of human nature, and it is necessary to keep a hand. In the later fifteen years, his life and economy have improved considerably. He teaches less boxing and is more admired. He said that it is only important to deal with it. He has a forgetful memory in his old age. It was caused by political persecution of his young family. He was born out of medical skills and didn't pay much attention to martial arts.

　　He didn’t teach me many routines, but Sanshou had a lot of skills in grinding hands, the most important being the mantis’s ancient 90-hand secret hand essence movement skills, so after years of my research, the mantis secret hand and Ba shortquan are the secret gates. The essence of Mantis Fist is also a representative skill.

## **Secret Mantis Fist Twelve-character Tactics**

**秘門螳螂拳 十二字訣**

     鉤。 刁。 採。 掛。 提。 拿。 封。 閉。 粘。 連。 幫。 靠。

## **Five Forces Relief Method**

**五勢舒氣法**

　　　歌訣 　　　　　　　　　　動作指要

　吞肩縮骨緊靠身                 肺： 雙提雙跺挫人中，

                                                   　  螳螂起式氣丹田。

　兩腿並立踏千斤                 腎： 螳螂取水又偷桃，

                                                  　   拍地出寶下擊地。

　頭如鑽天，腳跐兩灣         肝： 黎花擺頭寒雞式，

　                                                 　 偷步盤肘展雙腰。

　靈心下氣，氣運丹田         心： 側番車破骨千斤，

                                                     　下蹲身沖天砲拳。

　腎門一閉水火靠                 脾： 螳螂斬腰用腰力，

                                                   　  美人照鏡疊身肘。

　目不斜視，心不外遊。

Five forces of luck are golden lungs. Water kidney. Wood liver. fire heart. Soil spleen, stomach, five elements and five internal organs, secret door praying mantis practice the first gong qigong method, can relieve the qi and strengthen the internal organs, hinder the practice of internal injuries, can help the five elements boxing force early to understand the essentials, the movements are all mantis boxing moves, not very much for boxing practitioners Difficulty, Qigong and moves are operated at the same time. When using moves against the enemy, Qi will naturally give out power and scary. As the saying goes : Mantis dared to go out one day, and Tai Chi closed the door for ten years.

## Secret Mantis Fist Explaining the Secret (3) - Su Yu Chang

 The earliest record Praying Mantis boxing, is the creation of a single stroke style alone, after slowly by boxing should use, and luck guide air stored in the internal body fat, strength actions, from a variety of different routines, and after long years, depending on the region rings territory and The difference in the nature of human personality is a kind of mantis boxing, which is divided into hard and soft. Divide the seven-star plum blossom secret gate horse monkey Liuhe ‧ ‧ and so on. The research on the mantis boxing should be traced back to the origin. The earliest and oldest moves, and many kinds of boxing records have records that "the mantis secret hand ninety moves " is the original move. Therefore, " Secret Hand " is the origin of Tanglangquan and the foundation for studying the truth. It is like Xingyiquan's five elements before twelve forms, or Bajiquan, T-character and eight forms, before you learn how to practice small eight ji, stretch your muscles and stretch your muscles. Before the bones relax, let’s make a joke. This kind of offside practice does not see any famous masters in the world. It is a pity, in order to promote the reputation of Tanglangquan, eradicate these years. The old fake teacher and old swindler who corrupted his reputation deliberately made the " Secret Hand " boxing score public, so that those who really like it can refer to it. This score was passed on to the two masters of Zhang Dekui and Li Kunshan, and they also taught the movement skills. , I have benefited a lot from studying Tanglangquan in the future. The spectrum is written in accordance with the ancient scores. First, the name of the hand is followed by the name of the move. Many of the name of the move are different from modern colloquialism, but the actions are the same. Some names have Shandong dialect. There is a name of the move so that the technique of the move is not lost, and it can also be used to understand the meaning of the technique.

## Ninety Secret Hands of praying mantis

**螳螂秘手九十著**

1)藏花 左右葉裡藏花 2)錯捶 左右雙錯捶 3)上下圈 左右上下圈 4)補挑

    左右補挑捶 5)上圈 左右上圈 6)跺枝腳 左右跺枝腳 7)外梁 左右外梁

    8)搧風 右左雙手兩耳搧風 9)崩 左右雙手崩捶 10)挑 左右雙手穿 11)按

     右左雙手按 12)提搗 左右提搗 13)穿贅打得遠 左右穿贅 14)夜叉 左右

     夜叉探海 15)挑擔 右左上下美女挑雙擔 16)打圈 左右圈捶 17)搜打 左

     右搜圈 18)十字捶 右左十字捶 19)提兩邊 左右斜單提 20)雙剪 左右雙

     剪捶 21)撟打 右左撟打 22)左右穿 左右雙挑捶 23)補按 左右補按捶

    24)崩圈 左右勾崩圈捶 25)天分 左右雙手天分 26)地分 左右雙手地分

    27)拐肘 右左拐時 28)補崩 右左補崩捶 29)穿橋鑽 右左單挑穿橋鑽 30)

    括打 右左括打捶 31)鯉魚把身反 左右手鯉魚反身(有上下手下手是地功

    用雙腳跌身反字亦同翻字) 32)左右擂打找雙當 左反左幫右反右幫 33)掌

    手雷 右左掌手雷 34)雙當 右左雙當 35)雙掛捶 左右雙掛捶 36)雙上半圈

     左右雙上半圈 37)霹歷 左右霹歷火 38)攻閃電 左右閃得手 39)補捶 左

    右補捶 40)單挑 左右單挑雜捶 41)打蹺圈 左右採手蹺圈 42)雙棍 左右雙

    棍 43)剪叉 右左剪叉手 44)裡破骨 左右裡破骨(毒險招) 45)外破骨 左右

    外破骨 46)裡錯 右左裡錯骨 47)扭著翫 右左外扭翫骨 48)雙補 右左雙補

    捶 49)雙蓮 左右雙蓮圈 50)雙上圈 左右雙上圈 51)雙底 左右雙下圈 52)

    雙裡 右左雙裡圈 53)雙外圈 右左雙外圈 54)單崩 左右單崩圈 55)攢天

    左右攢天虫 56)撲按圈 左右撲按圈 57)擎天 左右擎天玉柱 58)拍手 左右

    拍手 59)雜的歡 右左雙雜崩 60)捕蟬 左右螳螂捕蟬 61)頭尾 左右撲頭上

    脛 62)尾上反 左右撲頸上頭 63)仙人 右左仙人指路 64)過橋 左右魯班打

    橋 65)把眼挖 左右白虎洗臉 66)巧女 右左巧女繡花 67)順風 左右順風掃

    葉 68)打轉圈 左右打轉圈 69)抹眉 左右抹眉洗面花 70)雙提 左右雙提搗

     71)雙送捶 左右雙送手頂捶 72)溈跺 左右溈跺腳 73)單截 右左單截上崩

     74)雙截寬 右左雙截上崩 75)摟摟 左冇對面雙摟摟捶 76)下提 左右下提

    打溈圈 77)左右摟 左右側雙摟摟捶 78)單截崩 左右單截反下崩 79)頂崩

    左右雙頂崩 80)崩下頂 左右雙崩下頂 81)雙朝 雙朝天手 82)雙窩 雙窩加

    朝天 83)雙採頂 雙採又雙頂 84)雙勾 雙勾捶 85)雙護眼 左右雙護眼 86)

    雙分 雙分手 87)雙穿 雙穿捶 89)雙撲 雙撲捶 90)雙肐中 雙肐捶

**The above " 90 Secret Hands " , one hand is not necessarily only one move. The name has been changed so far, but the action usage is to preserve the preaching. Nowadays, many people who teach Tanglang Boxing deceive others for a lifetime, and they don’t even know the name of the move. Needless to say their technical actions, today the secret book is released, and it is provided to post-scholars to distinguish between true and false teacher inheritance. There are many real people in this world, and the false teachers flooding the martial arts is a disaster.**

## References

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