"It is also important to remember they are running for president and not county or village commissioner. When running for president, one has to take into consideration the party's entire operations, including the feng shui of the Democratic Progressive Party and the Chinese Nationalist Party's (KMT) party headquarters," he says.
In Jiang's view, the feng shui of Hsieh's campaign headquarters is poor, but the DPP's head office has good feng shui.
He recommends that Hsieh install a water fountain in front of his campaign headquarters to reduce harmful qi.
The feng shui of Ma's campaign headquarters, however, is very good, while the KMT headquarters' feng shui is especially bad - so bad, in fact, that the only way to fix it would be to move into a different building.
The bad feng shui of the KMT's headquarters will translate into infighting among party workers, Jiang says, "so Ma has to pay attention to the competition among the KMT's vice-chairmen and the disputes among party cadres."
professional qualifications
Though practitioners say geomancy is science - "it works like a magnetic field," according to Jiang - you can't get a degree in feng shui. Unlike lawyers or insurance brokers - professions who manage risk in a modern way - feng shui practitioners don't take classes or sit for exams to prove their abilities. Feng shui associations exist, but they are considered private businesses, not professional associations.
One only need call oneself a geomancer to become one. Salesmanship and an ability to belittle one's competitors - Jiang, for example, says he is the "world's best" geomancer - are a big part of the job.
But being a famous feng shui master is also hard work. Jiang calculates the feng shui of 100 structures a month and claims to have looked at the feng shui of more than 7,000 spaces since he opened his practice a decade ago. His television program Fun With Fortune-Telling runs from 9:30pm to 11pm on channel Super TV (STV) five nights of the week.
Still, the payoff can be high.
"I predicted the real estate market in Kaohsiung would rise," Jiang says. "And it rose." Many investors, he says, felt confident about buying property and made money as a result.
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