The Liu He Tang Lang Quan is one kind of animal-imitation boxing. It belongs to the Northern School Mantis Boxing, and is also known as Monkey Mantis Boxing. The action and strength tends to be soft and therefore it is also known as “Soft Mantis Boxing”. It is said that there was a military offender named Wei Delin in the Emperor Tongzhi period in Qing Dynasty; he broke the prison and escaped from Dengzhou, Shandong province (now Penglai) and hidden in the Manor Lin in Zhaoyuan, Shandong province. When he recovered from the injury, in order to repay the saver, he taught the saver The Liu He Duan Chui (Six Conformities short-hammer), also known as Monkey Ma Mantis Boxing (That is the Monkey Ma Step Routine, Mantis Arm). Later it developed as Six Conformities Mantis Boxing. As the fingers of Wei look like the shape of duck toe, people also called it the “duck slap”, and later named “mantis”.

Lin Shichun learned this boxing routine, after years of practice, his martial arts are well known. The Liu He Tang Lang Quan emphasized on changing the form by changing mind, and enlightening from the body in practice methods as well as techniques. It requires being active as the wheels, as round as balls, coordinating the ups and downs and uniting the internal and external. The strength techniques contain strong, soft, light, secret and smooth. Routines are mainly Duan Chui (short-hammers), Shuang Feng (dual packer), Tie Ci (iron thorns), Zang Hua (hiding), Zhao Mian Deng (lamps), and Jie Shou Quan (hand-cut-off circle), as well as six conformities summary, 93 hand techniques and so on.