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Excerpt from "The Complete Works of Chen Pan Ling's Chinese Martial Arts Teachings" (中華國術教材全集) , page 316 (Poster 1)
Please note: Extra words added to the posture description for clarity, as well as additional notes and comments, appear in [square brackets]. Text in (regular parentheses) is the author's text.
八. 提手上勢
由前式鬆腰起身, 徐徐吸氣，右腳不動, 左腳前移, 成自然步, 同時右手向前向上提起, 架於額前上方; 左手下按, 大指對臍, 兩手均成陰掌。氣沉丹田, 体態端正, 如圖22。
Posture 8. Raise Hand Up
[Continuing] from the previous movement, relax the waist and raise the body. Slowly inhale. Keeping the right foot in place, shift the left foot forward to end in a natural stance [i.e., feet parallel at hip distance]. At the same time, raise the right hand up to the front, blocking above the front of the forehead. Push [àn] down with the left hand, with the thumb opposite the navel. Both hands are Yin palms. Sink the Qi to the dan-tian, with the body in an upright posture, as in Figure 22.
[Note: Although this posture is usually translated as "raise hand and step up", I think the "up" in the title refers to the hand lifting up with a forceful gesture (上勢), not the foot stepping forward. Usually "up" (上) is used when the foot is stepping forward ahead of the other foot. Here, the left foot is stepping even with the right foot, and the text uses the word for "shift". ]
Figure 22
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