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Praying Mantis Forms

The document discusses the origins and forms of Seven Star Praying Mantis kung fu. It states that the style is comprised of forms from five branches of Shaolin Praying Mantis - Chi Xieng, Mei Hua, Guang Bang, Chang Chuan, and Fan Che. It provides details on the forms incorporated from each branch, including Beng Bu from Chi Xieng and Mei Hua Chuan from Mei Hwa. The document explains that a Taoist monk named Sheng Xiao Dao Ren synthesized these forms from different Praying Mantis styles he learned from Shaolin monks into the current Seven Star Praying Mantis system.

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Praying Mantis Forms

The document discusses the origins and forms of Seven Star Praying Mantis kung fu. It states that the style is comprised of forms from five branches of Shaolin Praying Mantis - Chi Xieng, Mei Hua, Guang Bang, Chang Chuan, and Fan Che. It provides details on the forms incorporated from each branch, including Beng Bu from Chi Xieng and Mei Hua Chuan from Mei Hwa. The document explains that a Taoist monk named Sheng Xiao Dao Ren synthesized these forms from different Praying Mantis styles he learned from Shaolin monks into the current Seven Star Praying Mantis system.

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THE FORMS

The Seven Praying Mantis forms that Sheng Xiao Dao Ren learned from Wong�s monk
students were made up of the following branches of Praying Mantis from the Shaolin
temple: Chi Xieng (Seven Star style), Mei Hua (Plum Flower style), Guang Bang
(Shiny Board style) Chang Chuan (Long Fist style), and Fan Che (Chariot style). The
Seven Star Praying Mantis kung fu style, as it is taught today, is made up of 50%
Chi Xieng (Seven Star style), 30% Mei Hua (Plum Flower style), and 20% Guang Bang
(Shiny Board style). The Praying Mantis style, Guang Bang (Shiny Board style) is
the root style of both Chang Chuan (Long Fist style) and Fan Che (Chariot style).
Forms from each branch of Praying Mantis were adopted to create the Seven Star
Praying Mantis system. Each form teaches a somewhat different aspect of Seven Star
Praying Mantis.

It is believed that the monk students of Wang Lang created the different Praying
Mantis systems at the Shaolin temple. They did so to put a different emphasis on
each style according to their own experiences. The Taoist, Sheng Xiao Dao Ren,
during his stay at the Shaolin temple, had the opportunity to learn these different
Praying Mantis systems and their forms from these Shaolin monks and later pass them
on.

From the Chi Xieng (Seven Star style) the forms are: Beng Bu (Crushing Step), Shyh
Ba Sou (Eighteen Old Men), Duo Gang (Concealing the Hard), Tang Lang Chu Dong
(Praying Mantis Exits the Cave), Tang Lang Tou Tau (Praying Mantis Steals the
Peach), and Mei Hua Shou (Plum Flower Hand). Beng Bu is the foundation form of
northern Praying Mantis. It contains the twelve character principles that Wang Lang
used to formulate the original Praying Mantis system. Most branches of northern
Praying Mantis recognize that Beng Bu was the first form created by Wang Lang.

Mei Hua (Plum Flower style) contributes a number of forms to the northern Praying
Mantis kung fu system: Mei Hua Chuan (Plum Flower Fist), Yi Lu Jai Yaw, Er Lu Jai
Yaw, and San Lu Jai Yaw (1st, 2nd, and 3rd Route Essence).

From the Guang Bang (Shiny Board style) come the forms Mei Hua Luo (Plum, Flower
Falling), Da Gia Shyh (Big Gesture Form), and Xiou Gia Shyh (Small Gesture Form).

From Chang Chuan (Long Fist style) come two fist forms, Cha Chuey (Piercing Fist),
and Syh Lu Bun Da (Four Direction Fist).

There are two fist forms from the Fan Che (Chariot style), called Da Fan Che (Big
Chariot ) and Xiao Fan Che (Little Chariot).
It is these original Praying mantis forms that Sheng Xiao Dao Ren used to formulate
the current Seven Star Praying Mantis kung fu system. Although there are additional
forms in the Seven Star Praying Mantis style contained within the original ones are
all the principles and concepts of the system. It is possible with these original
sets to master the complete system.

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