<span class="chinese-post-title">歌訣五</span> Fifth Secret Song from the <span class="chinese-post-title">八卦掌三十六歌</span> The Thirty-Six Songs of Baguazhang

歌訣五

步既轉兮手亦隨，
後掌穿出前掌回。
去來來去無二致，
要如弩箭離弦飛。

"The steps turn and the hands follow
The rear palm bores out and the front palm returns
Go and come, come and go, without two (different) goals.
One must be like an arrow leaving the string of a crossbow."

Based on the translations by 楊俊敏 Yang Jwing Ming and 梁守渝 Liang Shou You in 峨嵋八卦掌 "Baguazhang - Theory and Applications" and by Frank Allen and Tina Chunna Zhang in "The Whirling Circles of Ba Gua Zhang"