A student asks me if he should buy a Chinese QMDJsoftware from Hong Kong.

I've tested over 20 QMDJ programs, mostly in Chinese.

The one published by Juxian Guan is not up to par yet.All it gives you is just the hour pans plus somebasic descriptions-- not recommended for the price orfunctions.

There are a few good ones published in mainland China,but you need to have at least college level Chineseknowledge to read the Chinese in the program.

There is one in English sold as part of a diary typeprogram, but its calculations are incorrect.

There is another English version QMDJ program.Observing from the screen shots, it seems to be aglorified electronic version of the 1080 tables.

Most English versions of Chinese metaphysics software,are nothing more than electronic versions of thecharts of the subject that you can find onlinesoftware to do it for free.

These programs or javascripts just do the mechanicalcalculations for you.  Ultimately, human brain poweris still a requirement.

It is easy to check if the programmer knows his/herstuff--- by checking how many years of QMDJ chartcalculation the program can handle. If it is around 10years or so, it means s/he may have problem figuringout a major problem in QMDJ--- how to handle the QMDJ10k cal.  So all s/he can do is retype existing QMDJ10k Cal manually into the program.  It is a lot oftyping, so s/he has to limit the number of years.

Here is a link to get charts of all sorts, from QMDJ,ZWDS, flying star, Liu-ren, Yi-Jing to Plum Flower:

http://www.zhycw.com/artical/bbs/bz/index.asp

For QMDJ charts:

http://www.zhycw.com/artical/bbs/bz/qimen.asp

With this free online software, you can locate yourbirth hour chart in terms of QMDJ-- it will give you alot of insight and help analyzing 4P.  It supportscharts from 1883-2031.

You need to set your browser to read simplifiedChinese before using this website.

If you have problem reading the Chinese, download myIQMDJ file from the CA archive.

The ideal QMDJ program should have these features:

--Key in a date range (say from August 1 to 15) andspecify an auspicious profile (say my client wants thecloset "Maiden waiting at the gate hour")-- theprogram should give you when you will find the hourwithin the range, so you don't need to go through tonsof charts to find the hour.

--Can do divination with explanation

--Can give you explanation of each palace in terms ofpositive and negative aspects

--Can give you the function specific info of eachpalace by moving the cursor over the palace

--Has more than 10+ years of data, preferably alsohistorical data like from 1900- 2030, so that you canuse it to do 4P from the perspective of QMDJ

--Can handle hour, day, month and year pans.

--Can rank the pans of a designated period (like amonth) in terms of specific tasks (e.g. litigation,gambling, grand-opening, travel... etc.), so you canpick out the best chart in a flash.

-- can advise you how to walk the chart based on yourstarting point

-- can show you the indicators or imageries to be seenwhen applying QMDJ

--can handle different schools of QMDJ calculation,not just the classic school

--can handle different methods of integrating theextra 5-6 days outside the 24 solar terms

So far, no such program exist in Chinese or English.I've been using a homemade one to do the abovefunctions.  But it is not for sale.  I don't want tobe in software-support business.  I write out thesespecifications so that smart programmers can write oneout for the public.

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