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	童子拜佛 literally means "the child worships the Buddha"; 小棒当头 means "the little cudgel strikes the head". The latter name also appears in the series' account of 蜘蛛抱蛋 ("the spider wraps the egg"), where it describes a black pawn's mating move.<ref name="ref-12">4399 用户「是顾小花呀」（文中署名 Remilia）(14 December 2015). "[https://m.4399.cn/news-id-582811.html 天天象棋残局攻略卒（兵）杀法蜘蛛抱蛋]" [''Tian Tian Xiangqi'' endgame guide: the pawn mating pattern 蜘蛛抱蛋]. 4399手机游戏网 (m.4399.cn). Eighth instalment; the note attaching 小棒当头 to a black pawn's mating move; the contrast with 小刀剜心.</ref> In his explanation of the composed position, the instructor 岳峰 identifies the "child" as the edge pawn that crosses the board to deliver mate.<ref name="ref-7">岳峰讲棋 (6 October 2021). "[https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1tP4y187BB/ 【岳峰讲棋】象棋残棋，童子拜佛，越危险越安全！]" [Yuefeng explains chess: the endgame 童子拜佛, the more dangerous the safer]. 哔哩哔哩 (Bilibili). Position, attempted losing try, and the winning method.</ref>		童子拜佛 literally means "the child worships the Buddha"; 小棒当头 means "the little cudgel strikes the head". The latter name also appears in the series' account of 蜘蛛抱蛋 ("the spider wraps the egg"), where it describes a black pawn's mating move.<ref name="ref-12">4399 用户「是顾小花呀」（文中署名 Remilia）(14 December 2015). "[https://m.4399.cn/news-id-582811.html 天天象棋残局攻略卒（兵）杀法蜘蛛抱蛋]" [''Tian Tian Xiangqi'' endgame guide: the pawn mating pattern 蜘蛛抱蛋]. 4399手机游戏网 (m.4399.cn). Eighth instalment; the note attaching 小棒当头 to a black pawn's mating move; the contrast with 小刀剜心.</ref> In his explanation of the composed position, the instructor 岳峰 identifies the "child" as the edge pawn that crosses the board to deliver mate.<ref name="ref-7">岳峰讲棋 (6 October 2021). "[https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1tP4y187BB/ 【岳峰讲棋】象棋残棋，童子拜佛，越危险越安全！]" [Yuefeng explains chess: the endgame 童子拜佛, the more dangerous the safer]. 哔哩哔哩 (Bilibili). Position, attempted losing try, and the winning method.</ref>

	Other pawn patterns in the series also have pictorial names. The pawn pattern 独卒擒王 ("a lone pawn captures the king") carries the aliases 一卒送终, 太监追皇帝 ("the eunuch chases the emperor") and 送佛归殿 ("escorting the Buddha back to the hall"), and 蜘蛛抱蛋 is also called 小鬼坐龙庭 ("the little devil sits in the dragon court").<ref name="ref-13">4399手机游戏网 (14 December 2015). "[https://news.4399.com/gonglue/ttxq/cjsfds/m/582765.html 天天象棋残局攻略卒（兵）杀法独卒擒王]" [''Tian Tian Xiangqi'' endgame guide: the pawn mating pattern 独卒擒王]. 4399手机游戏网 (news.4399.com). Fifth instalment; the aliases 一卒送终, 太监追皇帝, 送佛归殿; the contrast with 三进兵.</ref><ref name="ref-12" /> The preface to ''Mating Methods with Chariot, Horse and Pawn'' (车马兵杀法) explains that its positions were given literary names so that readers could tell them apart and take more pleasure in them, and notes that a named "killing pattern" (杀式) can be derived from the title of an old position — giving 金人七燕杀式, derived from 金人七燕, as an example.<ref name="ref-9">(1992). ''车马兵杀法'' [Mating methods with chariot, horse and pawn]. 人民体育出版社 (People's Sports Publishing House). 270 composed positions grouped by pawn count, each with a literary name; the preface on the naming convention.</ref>		Other pawn patterns in the series also have pictorial names. The pawn pattern 独卒擒王 ("a lone pawn captures the king") carries the aliases 一卒送终, 太监追皇帝 ("the eunuch chases the emperor") and [[Repatriation of the Buddha\|送佛归殿]] ("escorting the Buddha back to the hall"), and 蜘蛛抱蛋 is also called 小鬼坐龙庭 ("the little devil sits in the dragon court").<ref name="ref-13">4399手机游戏网 (14 December 2015). "[https://news.4399.com/gonglue/ttxq/cjsfds/m/582765.html 天天象棋残局攻略卒（兵）杀法独卒擒王]" [''Tian Tian Xiangqi'' endgame guide: the pawn mating pattern 独卒擒王]. 4399手机游戏网 (news.4399.com). Fifth instalment; the aliases 一卒送终, 太监追皇帝, 送佛归殿; the contrast with 三进兵.</ref><ref name="ref-12" /> The preface to ''Mating Methods with Chariot, Horse and Pawn'' (车马兵杀法) explains that its positions were given literary names so that readers could tell them apart and take more pleasure in them, and notes that a named "killing pattern" (杀式) can be derived from the title of an old position — giving 金人七燕杀式, derived from 金人七燕, as an example.<ref name="ref-9">(1992). ''车马兵杀法'' [Mating methods with chariot, horse and pawn]. 人民体育出版社 (People's Sports Publishing House). 270 composed positions grouped by pawn count, each with a literary name; the preface on the naming convention.</ref>

	== Worked examples ==		== Worked examples ==

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Note that the pattern names in the origin paragraph are names, not moves, and gloss 卧槽马 as the elbow horse

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	Copies and derivatives of the series are otherwise uniform. A document-sharing upload of 2020 collects the names of the basic mating patterns in fourteen pages, a second upload the same year holds a twelve-page name list, a Zhihu column of 2022 and a document of 2021 reproduce the hub text and the 童子拜佛 paragraph including the 小棒当头 alias, and a Toutiao share card repeats the seed page's title and opening.<ref name="ref-42">guojieyq (uploaded 21 March 2020). "[https://m.doc88.com/p-09616972105122.html 象棋的基本杀法定式名称汇总]" [A collected list of the names of the basic mating patterns]. 道客巴巴 (doc88.com). Fourteen pages; the same taxonomy text, including item 7 童子拜佛.</ref><ref name="ref-43">(uploaded 29 April 2020). "[https://www.doc88.com/p-03947333525685.html 象棋的基本杀法定式各类杀法名称汇总]" [The basic mating patterns: a collected list of names]. 道客巴巴 (doc88.com). Twelve pages; title and metadata readable only.</ref><ref name="ref-44">(21 July 2022). "[https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/544643823 象棋的基本杀法定式]" [The basic mating patterns of xiangqi]. 知乎专栏 (Zhihu column).</ref><ref name="ref-45">(5 September 2021). "[https://m.docin.com/touch/p-2764579537.html 天天象棋52关图解]" [''Tian Tian Xiangqi'' level 52 illustrated]. 豆丁网 (docin.com). Reproduces the 4399 童子拜佛 paragraph with its credit line and alias.</ref><ref name="ref-46">今日头条 UGC share page. "[https://www.toutiao.com/ugc/share/wap/thread/1646516207135748/ 天天象棋残局攻略卒(兵)杀法童子拜佛]" [''Tian Tian Xiangqi'' endgame guide: the pawn mating pattern 童子拜佛]. 今日头条 (Toutiao); a republication of the seed page carrying its title, definition and first example.</ref>		Copies and derivatives of the series are otherwise uniform. A document-sharing upload of 2020 collects the names of the basic mating patterns in fourteen pages, a second upload the same year holds a twelve-page name list, a Zhihu column of 2022 and a document of 2021 reproduce the hub text and the 童子拜佛 paragraph including the 小棒当头 alias, and a Toutiao share card repeats the seed page's title and opening.<ref name="ref-42">guojieyq (uploaded 21 March 2020). "[https://m.doc88.com/p-09616972105122.html 象棋的基本杀法定式名称汇总]" [A collected list of the names of the basic mating patterns]. 道客巴巴 (doc88.com). Fourteen pages; the same taxonomy text, including item 7 童子拜佛.</ref><ref name="ref-43">(uploaded 29 April 2020). "[https://www.doc88.com/p-03947333525685.html 象棋的基本杀法定式各类杀法名称汇总]" [The basic mating patterns: a collected list of names]. 道客巴巴 (doc88.com). Twelve pages; title and metadata readable only.</ref><ref name="ref-44">(21 July 2022). "[https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/544643823 象棋的基本杀法定式]" [The basic mating patterns of xiangqi]. 知乎专栏 (Zhihu column).</ref><ref name="ref-45">(5 September 2021). "[https://m.docin.com/touch/p-2764579537.html 天天象棋52关图解]" [''Tian Tian Xiangqi'' level 52 illustrated]. 豆丁网 (docin.com). Reproduces the 4399 童子拜佛 paragraph with its credit line and alias.</ref><ref name="ref-46">今日头条 UGC share page. "[https://www.toutiao.com/ugc/share/wap/thread/1646516207135748/ 天天象棋残局攻略卒(兵)杀法童子拜佛]" [''Tian Tian Xiangqi'' endgame guide: the pawn mating pattern 童子拜佛]. 今日头条 (Toutiao); a republication of the seed page carrying its title, definition and first example.</ref>

	The naming vocabulary the series uses was already circulating in Chinese xiangqi forums before December 2015: a Tieba post of September 2015 lists a video course on basic mating patterns ~~whose parts cover~~ 困毙, 海底捞月, 大胆穿心, 铁门闩, 双车错, 卧槽马, 马后炮, 双马饮泉, 二鬼拍门 and 三子归边, ~~among others~~.<ref name="ref-47">wwwaasssddd (18 September 2015). "[https://tieba.baidu.com/p/4068355026 【新手必学】象棋基本杀法&定式残局柳大华视频讲解]" [Must-learn basics: Liu Dahua's video lectures on basic mating methods and set-form endgames]. 百度贴吧 (Baidu Tieba). Pattern names covered by each video.</ref>		The naming vocabulary the series uses was already circulating in Chinese xiangqi forums before December 2015: a Tieba post of September 2015 lists a video course on basic mating methods and set-form endgames whose instalments are named after patterns, among them 困毙, 海底捞月, 大胆穿心, 铁门闩, 双车错, the [[elbow horse]] (卧槽马), 马后炮, 双马饮泉, 二鬼拍门 and 三子归边. The names are pattern names, not move notation, and the article gives all moves in WXF notation.<ref name="ref-47">wwwaasssddd (18 September 2015). "[https://tieba.baidu.com/p/4068355026 【新手必学】象棋基本杀法&定式残局柳大华视频讲解]" [Must-learn basics: Liu Dahua's video lectures on basic mating methods and set-form endgames]. 百度贴吧 (Baidu Tieba). Pattern names covered by each video.</ref>

	== See also ==		== See also ==

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Use WXF notation consistently: replace the Chinese move notation with WXF, normalise Black's moves to lower case, and add a one-sentence notation key

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	== Worked examples ==		== Worked examples ==

	The series illustrates the pattern with two unrelated fragments rather than with a single canonical position.<ref name="ref-2" />		The series illustrates the pattern with two unrelated fragments rather than with a single canonical position.<ref name="ref-2" /> Move sequences in this article are written in the notation of the World Xiangqi Federation: K general, A advisor, E elephant, H horse, R chariot, C cannon and P pawn, upper case for Red and lower case for Black; files are numbered 1-9 from each side's own right; and +, - and = mark an advance, a retreat and a sideways move.

	The first example is a mating position with very few pieces: Black's general on its own back rank between two chariots, an advisor in front of it, and a Red pawn one point below the advisor, with Red's own general facing down the same open file. The single move ~~兵五进一~~ — the pawn advancing onto the advisor's point — is itself mate.<ref name="ref-2" /> The general cannot capture the pawn, because the two generals would then face each other along the open central file, and the chariots standing beside it occupy the only squares to which it could step.		The first example is a mating position with very few pieces: Black's general on its own back rank between two chariots, an advisor in front of it, and a Red pawn one point below the advisor, with Red's own general facing down the same open file. The single move P5+1 — the pawn advancing onto the advisor's point — is itself mate.<ref name="ref-2" /> The general cannot capture the pawn, because the two generals would then face each other along the open central file, and the chariots standing beside it occupy the only squares to which it could step.

	<xiangqi-player>		<xiangqi-player>
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	"initialPly": 0,		"initialPly": 0,
	"annotations": {		"annotations": {
	"1": "1. ~~兵五进一~~: the pawn takes the advisor and gives the head-on check; the borrowed force is the Red general's opposition on the open file and the two Black chariots blocking the escape squares."		"1": "1. P5+1: the pawn takes the advisor and gives the head-on check; the borrowed force is the Red general's opposition on the open file and the two Black chariots blocking the escape squares."
	},		},
	"caption": "Example 1: the pawn's single advance (~~兵五进一~~) is mate"		"caption": "Example 1: the pawn's single advance (P5+1) is mate"
	}		}
	</xiangqi-player>		</xiangqi-player>
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	<!-- Pikafish verification: example 1 (3rkr3/4a4/4P4/9/9/9/9/9/9/4K4 w) replayed at depth 20 — four legal moves for Red, and the search reports mate 1 for the pawn advance. -->		<!-- Pikafish verification: example 1 (3rkr3/4a4/4P4/9/9/9/9/9/9/4K4 w) replayed at depth 20 — four legal moves for Red, and the search reports mate 1 for the pawn advance. -->

	The second example is a longer winning sequence in which the pawn works with a chariot and an elephant. The printed line runs twelve moves and ends in mate, a chariot delivering the final check on the enemy's second rank after the pawn has taken the point beside the general.<ref name="ref-1" /><ref name="ref-2" /> The page's own footnote shows what happens if Red varies: after 10. ~~车四平五~~ Black answers ~~车7平6~~ and mates the exposed Red general with a pawn-and-chariot net, and the page marks the line "Black wins".<ref name="ref-2" />		The second example is a longer winning sequence in which the pawn works with a chariot and an elephant. The printed line runs twelve moves and ends in mate, a chariot delivering the final check on the enemy's second rank after the pawn has taken the point beside the general.<ref name="ref-1" /><ref name="ref-2" /> The page's own footnote shows what happens if Red varies: after 10. R4=5 Black answers r7=6 and mates the exposed Red general with a pawn-and-chariot net, and the page marks the line "Black wins".<ref name="ref-2" />

	<xiangqi-player>		<xiangqi-player>
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	"initialPly": 0,		"initialPly": 0,
	"annotations": {		"annotations": {
	"1": "1. ~~兵六进一~~: the pawn check begins a forced-looking chase.",		"1": "1. P6+1: the pawn check begins a forced-looking chase.",
	"23": "12. ~~车四进一~~ mates; the pawn holds the escape point beside the general."		"23": "12. R4+1 mates; the pawn holds the escape point beside the general."
	},		},
	"caption": "Example 2: the twelve-move chariot-and-pawn win (1. P6+1 K4=5 2. P6=5 K5-1 3. R7+2 K5-1 4. P5+1 K5=4 5. R7+1 K4+1 6. R7-2 K4-1 7. P5=6 K4=5 8. P6+1 K5=6 9. R7=4 K6=5 10. R4+1 P4=5 11. P6=5 K5=4 12. R4+1)"		"caption": "Example 2: the twelve-move chariot-and-pawn win (1. P6+1 k4=5 2. P6=5 k5-1 3. R7+2 k5-1 4. P5+1 k5=4 5. R7+1 k4+1 6. R7-2 k4-1 7. P5=6 k4=5 8. P6+1 k5=6 9. R7=4 k6=5 10. R4+1 p4=5 11. P6=5 k5=4 12. R4+1)"
	}		}
	</xiangqi-player>		</xiangqi-player>
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	The position shown at the top of this page is the one fixed diagram that carries the name in database circulation. Red has chariots on f7 and h5 and a pawn on i9; Black has its general on f10, an advisor on f8 and chariots on e8 and e6; Red moves first.<ref name="ref-4" /><ref name="ref-6" /> The position was uploaded to the Dongping Xiangqi database repeatedly between 2007 and 2016 under the title 童子拜佛红先胜 ("Child Worships Buddha, Red moves first and wins"), and the same diagram was republished in 2021 by the WeChat account 象棋残局天下 as one instalment of its named endgame series, with the solution offered through a QR code rather than in the text.<ref name="ref-4" /><ref name="ref-6" /><ref name="ref-19">微信公众号「象棋残局天下」(17 June 2021). "象棋残局：童子拜佛" [Xiangqi endgame: Child Worships Buddha]. 微信公众平台. Diagram of the composed position; solution behind a QR code.</ref><ref name="ref-20">青竹19560620 (uploaded 16 April 2010). "[https://www.dpxq.com/hldcg/search/view_u_222431.html 童子拜佛红先胜]" [Child Worships Buddha, Red moves first and wins]. 东萍象棋网 (Dongping Xiangqi), uploaded-materials library. Filed under 近现代残排局 with the event label 简易胜势残局.</ref>		The position shown at the top of this page is the one fixed diagram that carries the name in database circulation. Red has chariots on f7 and h5 and a pawn on i9; Black has its general on f10, an advisor on f8 and chariots on e8 and e6; Red moves first.<ref name="ref-4" /><ref name="ref-6" /> The position was uploaded to the Dongping Xiangqi database repeatedly between 2007 and 2016 under the title 童子拜佛红先胜 ("Child Worships Buddha, Red moves first and wins"), and the same diagram was republished in 2021 by the WeChat account 象棋残局天下 as one instalment of its named endgame series, with the solution offered through a QR code rather than in the text.<ref name="ref-4" /><ref name="ref-6" /><ref name="ref-19">微信公众号「象棋残局天下」(17 June 2021). "象棋残局：童子拜佛" [Xiangqi endgame: Child Worships Buddha]. 微信公众平台. Diagram of the composed position; solution behind a QR code.</ref><ref name="ref-20">青竹19560620 (uploaded 16 April 2010). "[https://www.dpxq.com/hldcg/search/view_u_222431.html 童子拜佛红先胜]" [Child Worships Buddha, Red moves first and wins]. 东萍象棋网 (Dongping Xiangqi), uploaded-materials library. Filed under 近现代残排局 with the event label 简易胜势残局.</ref>

	The recorded solution is thirteen plies long. Red checks on the enemy's back rank, steps back, and then places a chariot on the central file of that rank: 1. R2+5 K6+1 2. R2-1 K6-1 3. R2=5.<ref name="ref-6" /> Black's answer in the recorded line is to advance the front chariot with check, 3... R++5, after which Red's general steps up and the checking chariot has to withdraw; Red then walks the pawn from its own second rank to the seventh (P1=2, P2=3, P3=4) and the pawn's arrival beside the general is mate.<ref name="ref-6" /><ref name="ref-2" />		The recorded solution is thirteen plies long. Red checks on the enemy's back rank, steps back, and then places a chariot on the central file of that rank: 1. R2+5 k6+1 2. R2-1 k6-1 3. R2=5.<ref name="ref-6" /> Black's answer in the recorded line is to advance the front chariot with check, 3... +r+5, after which Red's general steps up and the checking chariot has to withdraw; Red then walks the pawn from its own second rank to the seventh (P1=2, P2=3, P3=4) and the pawn's arrival beside the general is mate.<ref name="ref-6" /><ref name="ref-2" />

	<xiangqi-player>		<xiangqi-player>
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	"13": "7. P3=4: the pawn arrives beside the general; mate."		"13": "7. P3=4: the pawn arrives beside the general; mate."
	},		},
	"caption": "The composed position and its recorded thirteen-ply solution (1. R2+5 K6+1 2. R2-1 K6-1 3. R2=5 R++5 4. K4+1 R+-5 5. P1=2 R++1 6. P2=3 R+-1 7. P3=4)"		"caption": "The composed position and its recorded thirteen-ply solution (1. R2+5 k6+1 2. R2-1 k6-1 3. R2=5 +r+5 4. K4+1 +r-5 5. P1=2 +r+1 6. P2=3 +r-1 7. P3=4)"
	}		}
	</xiangqi-player>		</xiangqi-player>
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	<!-- Pikafish verification: composed position (5k3/8P/4ra3/5R3/4r4/7R1/9/9/9/5K3 w) — the thirteen-ply line replays legally and ends with Black in check and no legal reply; a depth-20 search of the starting position evaluates it at about +6.8 pawns for Red rather than a forced mate, so the line is one cooperative continuation among the recorded variations. -->		<!-- Pikafish verification: composed position (5k3/8P/4ra3/5R3/4r4/7R1/9/9/9/5K3 w) — the thirteen-ply line replays legally and ends with Black in check and no legal reply; a depth-20 search of the starting position evaluates it at about +6.8 pawns for Red rather than a forced mate, so the line is one cooperative continuation among the recorded variations. -->

	The teaching video demonstrates the same position as a street endgame (江湖残局) and treats Black's reply as forced in the other direction: after 3. R2=5 it has the rear chariot ~~capture~~ the intruder on the central file, and Red then wins the chariot and advisor by doubling on the file before marching the pawn to the opposite wing and mating with a final ~~车五平六~~.<ref name="ref-7" /> The database's own length fields for this position disagree with one another — the same position is filed at length 0, 13, 13 and 18 in different uploads — so its move-count metadata is not a reliable statement of the solution's length.<ref name="ref-4" /><ref name="ref-20" /><ref name="ref-21">东萍象棋网 (Dongping Xiangqi). Uploaded-materials records of the same position: view_q_475600 (24 June 2012), view_q_611156 (18 May 2013, length 18, carrying a five-ply variation) and view_q_1683621 (18 June 2021). Position identical to record 086 in every upload.</ref>		The teaching video demonstrates the same position as a street endgame (江湖残局) and treats Black's reply as forced in the other direction: after 3. R2=5 it has the rear chariot come back one point to take the intruder on the central file, and Red then wins the chariot and advisor by doubling on the file before marching the pawn to the opposite wing and mating with a final R5=6.<ref name="ref-7" /> The database's own length fields for this position disagree with one another — the same position is filed at length 0, 13, 13 and 18 in different uploads — so its move-count metadata is not a reliable statement of the solution's length.<ref name="ref-4" /><ref name="ref-20" /><ref name="ref-21">东萍象棋网 (Dongping Xiangqi). Uploaded-materials records of the same position: view_q_475600 (24 June 2012), view_q_611156 (18 May 2013, length 18, carrying a five-ply variation) and view_q_1683621 (18 June 2021). Position identical to record 086 in every upload.</ref>

	Nothing in the sources read here names a composer, a source book or a date of composition for the position; its documentation begins with the 2007 database record and runs through uploads and republications to 2021.<ref name="ref-4" /><ref name="ref-6" />		Nothing in the sources read here names a composer, a source book or a date of composition for the position; its documentation begins with the 2007 database record and runs through uploads and republications to 2021.<ref name="ref-4" /><ref name="ref-6" />

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	The name is a title as well as a pattern name, and in modern circulation it has been attached to compositions that have nothing to do with the 4399 pattern or with one another. Only the position shown above can be identified by its diagram; the rest must be distinguished by their pieces.<ref name="ref-4" /><ref name="ref-22">我的象棋1 (uploaded 22 September 2008). "[http://www.dpxq.com/hldcg/search/view_u_91121.html 童子拜佛]" [Child Worships Buddha]. 东萍象棋网 (Dongping Xiangqi), uploaded-materials library. A second, different composed position under the same title, sourced from 残局天下 (icanju.cn), marked Red wins, thirty-nine moves.</ref>		The name is a title as well as a pattern name, and in modern circulation it has been attached to compositions that have nothing to do with the 4399 pattern or with one another. Only the position shown above can be identified by its diagram; the rest must be distinguished by their pieces.<ref name="ref-4" /><ref name="ref-22">我的象棋1 (uploaded 22 September 2008). "[http://www.dpxq.com/hldcg/search/view_u_91121.html 童子拜佛]" [Child Worships Buddha]. 东萍象棋网 (Dongping Xiangqi), uploaded-materials library. A second, different composed position under the same title, sourced from 残局天下 (icanju.cn), marked Red wins, thirty-nine moves.</ref>

	A second composed position in the same database carries the title with a completely different array of pieces: it comes from the puzzle site 残局天下 (icanju.cn) and is filed as a Red win of thirty-nine moves.<ref name="ref-22" /> Modern video and social-media usage is looser still. One 2024 teaching video sets up a position in which Red's two cannons, horse, chariot and pawn face Black's general, advisor, horse and three pawns, and concludes after a long manoeuvring analysis that correct play draws — "everywhere death-traps, everywhere narrow escapes"; a depth-20 search of the position agrees.<ref name="ref-23">大黄三两 (8 September 2024). "[https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1KipeeoE98/ 烧脑残局，童子拜佛，处处死穴，处处绝地逢生]" [Brain-burning endgame, Child Worships Buddha: everywhere death-traps, everywhere narrow escapes]. 哔哩哔哩 (Bilibili). Transcript and frames; the demonstrator concludes the position is a draw.</ref> Two posts on the Chinese news platform Toutiao use the name for street puzzles: one presents it as a "small rivers-and-lakes endgame" whose short pawns carry many tricks, and the other asks for help after losing ten games to a position in which two black pawns have boxed in the red marshal.<ref name="ref-24">西凉小兵 (6 June 2026). "[https://www.toutiao.com/item/7648135169206911526/ 江湖残局《童子拜佛》几个小短腿到处歪歪绕专治半桶水]" [Street endgame "Child Worships Buddha": little short legs wandering everywhere]. 今日头条 (Toutiao). Article text only; no diagram recoverable.</ref><ref name="ref-25">象棋小王子 (23 November 2024). "[https://www.toutiao.com/group/1816428301281283/ 此残局名叫「童子拜佛」，就是这盘残局让我连输了十盘……]" [This endgame is called "Child Worships Buddha" and it cost me ten games in a row]. 今日头条 (Toutiao). Micro-post; Red moves first.</ref> For those two puzzles the diagrams could not be recovered, so the name alone is all that can be stated about them.<ref name="ref-24" /><~~ref name~~="~~ref~~-25" />		<div class="xqp-side">

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			A second composed position in the same database carries the title with a completely different array of pieces: it comes from the puzzle site 残局天下 (icanju.cn) and is filed as a Red win of thirty-nine moves.<ref name="ref-22" /> Modern video and social-media usage is looser still. One 2024 teaching video sets up a position in which Red's two cannons, horse, chariot and pawn face Black's general, advisor, horse and three pawns, and concludes after a long manoeuvring analysis that correct play draws — "everywhere death-traps, everywhere narrow escapes"; a depth-20 search of the position agrees.<ref name="ref-23">大黄三两 (8 September 2024). "[https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1KipeeoE98/ 烧脑残局，童子拜佛，处处死穴，处处绝地逢生]" [Brain-burning endgame, Child Worships Buddha: everywhere death-traps, everywhere narrow escapes]. 哔哩哔哩 (Bilibili). Transcript and frames; the demonstrator concludes the position is a draw.</ref> Two posts on the Chinese news platform Toutiao use the name for street puzzles: one presents it as a "small rivers-and-lakes endgame" whose short pawns carry many tricks, and the other asks for help after losing ten games to a position in which two black pawns have boxed in the red marshal.<ref name="ref-24">西凉小兵 (6 June 2026). "[https://www.toutiao.com/item/7648135169206911526/ 江湖残局《童子拜佛》几个小短腿到处歪歪绕专治半桶水]" [Street endgame "Child Worships Buddha": little short legs wandering everywhere]. 今日头条 (Toutiao). Article text only; no diagram recoverable.</ref><ref name="ref-25">象棋小王子 (23 November 2024). "[https://www.toutiao.com/group/1816428301281283/ 此残局名叫「童子拜佛」，就是这盘残局让我连输了十盘……]" [This endgame is called "Child Worships Buddha" and it cost me ten games in a row]. 今日头条 (Toutiao). Micro-post; Red moves first.</ref> For those two puzzles the diagrams could not be recovered, so the name alone is all that can be stated about them.<ref name="ref-24" /><ref name="ref-25" />

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WikiAdmin: Featured figure now uses the wiki's xiangqi board renderer (sidebox embed of the composed position) instead of a static upload

2026-10-01T05:38:29Z

Featured figure now uses the wiki's xiangqi board renderer (sidebox embed of the composed position) instead of a static upload

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	~~[[File~~:~~Child worships buddha position.jpg\|thumb\|upright=~~1~~.15\|alt=A xiangqi board diagram. Black (top) has its general on the centre of the back rank~~, ~~an advisor on the point in front of it~~, ~~and rooks on the two points beside and below that advisor; Red (bottom) has rooks on file six of the seventh rank and file eight of the fifth rank~~, ~~a pawn on the second point of the top rank~~, ~~and its king below the palace centre.\|~~The composed position that circulates under the name: Red (at the bottom) has ~~two~~ chariots on f7 and h5 and a pawn on i9 against Black's general on f10, advisor on f8 and chariots on e8 and e6. Red moves first ~~and~~ the recorded solution mates in thirteen plies. ~~Diagram drawn for Xiangqipedia from the position recorded in the Dongping Xiangqi database (''086.童子拜佛'').]]~~		<xiangqi-player>
			{
			"id": "tongzi-featured",
			"initialFen": "5k3/8P/4ra3/5R3/4r4/7R1/9/9/9/5K3 w - - 0 1",
			"moves": [],
			"initialPly": 0,
			"annotations": {},
			"caption": "The composed position that circulates under the name: Red (at the bottom) has chariots on f7 and h5 and a pawn on i9 against Black's general on f10, advisor on f8 and chariots on e8 and e6. Red moves first; the recorded solution mates in thirteen plies."
			}
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	'''Child Worships Buddha''' (Chinese: <span lang="zh">童子拜佛</span>, literally "the child worships the Buddha") is a named mating pattern in xiangqi teaching material: a pawn, supported by the other pieces, mates the opposing general head-on. The pattern appears in a series of basic mating patterns (基本杀法定式) published on the Chinese game site 4399 for the mobile game 天天象棋, where the pattern is the eleventh instalment and carries the nickname '''Little Cudgel Strikes the Head''' (小棒当头).<ref name="ref-1">4399 用户「是顾小花呀」（文中署名 Remilia）(16 December 2015). "[https://m.4399.cn/news-id-583615.html 天天象棋残局攻略卒（兵）杀法童子拜佛]" [''Tian Tian Xiangqi'' endgame guide: the pawn mating pattern 童子拜佛]. 4399手机游戏网 (m.4399.cn). Definition 第十一式; header 「来自:蓝色小飞鱼9999 \| IP:福建」; body credit 「转载自百度贴吧ID：蓝色小飞鱼9999」.</ref><ref name="ref-2">4399 用户「是顾小花呀」（文中署名 Remilia）(16 December 2015). "[https://news.4399.com/gonglue/ttxq/cjsfds/m/583615.html 天天象棋残局攻略卒（兵）杀法童子拜佛]" [''Tian Tian Xiangqi'' endgame guide: the pawn mating pattern 童子拜佛]. 4399手机游戏网 (news.4399.com). Two red-wins-first examples and the footnote variation.</ref> In the same series' taxonomy page the pattern is one of eight pawn-family entries in a scheme that divides the basic mating patterns into ten classes and one hundred patterns according to the roles of the mating piece and the controlling piece.<ref name="ref-3">砍间 (3 June 2016). "[https://news.4399.com/gonglue/ttxq/xinde/m/582404.html 天天象棋闯关心得技巧残局基础杀法定式]" [''Tian Tian Xiangqi'' level-by-level notes: the basic endgame mating patterns]. 4399手机游戏网 (news.4399.com). Ten classes; the pawn class; the closing theory of mating technique.</ref>		'''Child Worships Buddha''' (Chinese: <span lang="zh">童子拜佛</span>, literally "the child worships the Buddha") is a named mating pattern in xiangqi teaching material: a pawn, supported by the other pieces, mates the opposing general head-on. The pattern appears in a series of basic mating patterns (基本杀法定式) published on the Chinese game site 4399 for the mobile game 天天象棋, where the pattern is the eleventh instalment and carries the nickname '''Little Cudgel Strikes the Head''' (小棒当头).<ref name="ref-1">4399 用户「是顾小花呀」（文中署名 Remilia）(16 December 2015). "[https://m.4399.cn/news-id-583615.html 天天象棋残局攻略卒（兵）杀法童子拜佛]" [''Tian Tian Xiangqi'' endgame guide: the pawn mating pattern 童子拜佛]. 4399手机游戏网 (m.4399.cn). Definition 第十一式; header 「来自:蓝色小飞鱼9999 \| IP:福建」; body credit 「转载自百度贴吧ID：蓝色小飞鱼9999」.</ref><ref name="ref-2">4399 用户「是顾小花呀」（文中署名 Remilia）(16 December 2015). "[https://news.4399.com/gonglue/ttxq/cjsfds/m/583615.html 天天象棋残局攻略卒（兵）杀法童子拜佛]" [''Tian Tian Xiangqi'' endgame guide: the pawn mating pattern 童子拜佛]. 4399手机游戏网 (news.4399.com). Two red-wins-first examples and the footnote variation.</ref> In the same series' taxonomy page the pattern is one of eight pawn-family entries in a scheme that divides the basic mating patterns into ten classes and one hundred patterns according to the roles of the mating piece and the controlling piece.<ref name="ref-3">砍间 (3 June 2016). "[https://news.4399.com/gonglue/ttxq/xinde/m/582404.html 天天象棋闯关心得技巧残局基础杀法定式]" [''Tian Tian Xiangqi'' level-by-level notes: the basic endgame mating patterns]. 4399手机游戏网 (news.4399.com). Ten classes; the pawn class; the closing theory of mating technique.</ref>

WikiAdmin: Fix the first worked-example board: the mating pawn move is 兵五进一 (e8e9), so the sample plays through in the viewer

2026-10-01T05:16:30Z

Fix the first worked-example board: the mating pawn move is 兵五进一 (e8e9), so the sample plays through in the viewer

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	"initialFen": "3rkr3/4a4/4P4/9/9/9/9/9/9/4K4 w - - 0 1",		"initialFen": "3rkr3/4a4/4P4/9/9/9/9/9/9/4K4 w - - 0 1",
	"moves": [		"moves": [
	"~~e7e8~~"		"e8e9"
	],		],
	"initialPly": 0,		"initialPly": 0,

WikiAdmin: New article: Child Worships Buddha (童子拜佛), a named pawn mating pattern and the composed endgame that circulates under the same name

2026-10-01T05:13:43Z

New article: Child Worships Buddha (童子拜佛), a named pawn mating pattern and the composed endgame that circulates under the same name

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