Note: The message below was written in August 2015 for my "Professional Imperial QMDJ" discussion group. I wrote this article after being bombarded with questions about this so-called "QMDJ-XKDG" by my curious students for years. I have updated it with some new notes here.
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| Ancient QMDJ books |
Some marketers have marketed a "Qi-Men-Dun-Jia Xuan-Kong-Da-Gua" (奇门遁甲玄空大卦 QMDJ-XKDG) course a few years ago. You (my students) have asked many questions about this course.
In Chinese metaphysics, there is a fetish of "na-jia" or trying to fit everything into the bagua. Xuan-Kong-Da-Gua or XKDG itself is an example-- artificially fitting 64 hexagrams into the bagua or 8-trigrams by repeating 4 jia-zi (binomials). XKDG is still not accepted by some Feng Shui schools.
There is also a tendency in Chinese metaphysics circle to stuff 64 hexagrams into existing systems and repackage it as "XXXX-XKDG". These marketers often claim that this is no new stuff but a recent "rediscovery" of long-lost ancient manuscript or technique.
There is also a tendency in Chinese metaphysics circle to stuff 64 hexagrams into existing systems and repackage it as "XXXX-XKDG". These marketers often claim that this is no new stuff but a recent "rediscovery" of long-lost ancient manuscript or technique.
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| Early compass with 8 sectors |
As far as I know, there is no such thing as "QMDJ-XKDG". Modern marketers have coined the term "QMDJ-XKDG" because this later day version of QMDJ has somehow "squeezed" 64 hexagrams into the system. The original author(s) had called this version of QMDJ as "Golden Mirror of Nation-building and Capital setting for 10 Thousands Years Reign" (Aren't we lucky that Hitler had not gotten a copy?). I have read the book about this "nation/ capital building" QMDJ. (For around NT$ 300 or US$ 10, you can get the Chinese book on this topic in Taiwan).
QMDJ was developed around 200 AD using only 9 palaces or sectors (the rudimentary compass at that time could not do measurement down to individual degree). XKDG requires accuracy down to 360/384 or 0.938 degree (even compass during the1800's could not be this accurate). Mixing QMDJ with XKDG together is as funny as putting dinosaurs with humans together like the "One Million Years BC" movie. QMDJ and XKDG were over 1500 years apart.
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| Timeline between Dinosaurs and Humans |
QMDJ was developed around 200 AD using only 9 palaces or sectors (the rudimentary compass at that time could not do measurement down to individual degree). XKDG requires accuracy down to 360/384 or 0.938 degree (even compass during the1800's could not be this accurate). Mixing QMDJ with XKDG together is as funny as putting dinosaurs with humans together like the "One Million Years BC" movie. QMDJ and XKDG were over 1500 years apart.
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| Sample Capital-building chart |
Anyway, the "capital-building chart 建都盤" looks impressive if not intimidating for the uninitiated. It is just iterations of some formulas into individual palace.
Imperial Qing dynasty was no longer exist in China since 1911. It should be here today if "QMDJ-XKDG" was employed. And we know from historical texts and Qing Imperial Tombs that Qing emperors were very into Feng Shui and QMDJ. The Qing military commander Nian Gengyao (年羹尧) was known for using QMDJ in quelling rebellions.
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| Commander Nian Gengyao |
QMDJ itself is a very complicated system with over 50 data points and numerous dimensions. XKDG is not as complicated as QMDJ, but it is not simple either. Imagine the astronomical number of combinations generated when someone tries to tie these two system together!
Mixing unrelated systems and methods together is like building a QMDJ Frankenstein. The more variables one adds to a system, the more complicated it becomes, the narrower for its application (like in this case, capital building and huge projects) and the higher probability of something goes wrong. Isn't this too much for an individual Feng Shui practitioner to handle?
Just because a book was written a few hundred years ago does not necessarily make its contents valid. Consumers need to do their crap-detection and hype-filtering before paying for courses based on these "ancient books" or "rediscovery of ancient techniques".
My 40 years of experience in Chinese metaphysics tells me if someone hypes about a recent "discovery" of an ancient text, technique or family heirloom manuscript in QMDJ, Feng Shui or any topic, the chance of this being crap is pretty high. If the newly rediscovered "technique" is so amazing and powerful, it should have been utilized extensively like aspirin or sliced bread. Why it is forgotten or disappeared into the garbage heaps of history long time ago?
You may find QMDJ-ZWDS, XKDG-ZWDS, QMDJ-XKDG-ZWDS, Mega QMDJ-XKDG-ZWDS-4P-Flying-Star courses.... soon in some marketer websites near you.
Ken Lai
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