2019-03-04又中又英——feng shui expert

Every Chinese New Year I invite feng shui expert Michael Chiang Hong-man, who is also an architect, to come to my TVB English show to predict if it will be a good or bad year. The coming Chinese New Year, which starts on February 5, will be the Year of the Pig. Unfortunately, Chiang Hong-man told me it will not be a good year because there will be a Jupiter and Saturn conjunction in 2020. This happens every 20 years and will bring bad luck. The bad luck usually starts one or two years before the Jupiter and Saturn conjunction. The word “conjunction” used this way means two planets appearing to be in the same, or nearly in the same place in the sky.

　　The previous Jupiter and Saturn conjunction was in the year 2000. It brought several years of bad luck before and after the conjunction. Among the worst was the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington DC which killed thousands of people. A year later, in 2002, a killer disease called SARS affected many countries and cities, including China and Hong Kong. A killer disease is a disease that kills people. SARS killed hundreds of people. No one can predict what kind of bad luck the Year of the Pig will bring, or if the world will have even worse luck in 2020, the Year of the Rat, when the conjunction happens.

　　Chiang Hong-man told me there are lucky and unlucky positions in the home in the Year of the Pig. The two unluckiest positions are northeast and southwest. You should not move any furniture in the northeast part of your home and should not hammer anything in the southwest part. Of course, these are things you should do only if you believe in feng shui. And whether the Saturn and Jupiter conjunction will bring bad luck depends on whether you believe in such things. If you want to know in full what Chiang Hong-man told me, you are welcome to watch my show on February 5, the first day of the Lunar New Year. Happy Year of the Pig to all of you.

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　　每年的農曆新年，我都會邀請風水專家、又是建築師的蔣匡文來我在無線的英文節目，預測來年到底是好年抑或凶年。將要來臨的農曆新年是豬年，將於二月五日開始。不幸地，蔣匡文跟我說這不會是個好年，因為木星與土星於二○二○年相合（conjunction）。此事每二十年發生一次，會帶來厄運；而厄運通常於木星跟土星相合（conjunction）前一或兩年開始。

Conjunction在這裡的意思是兩個行星在天上在相同或非常相近的位置。

　　上一次的木星與土星相合（conjunction）在二○○○年，帶來了相合（conjunction）之前與之後數年的厄運。最惡劣的是二○○一年九月十一日紐約和華盛頓的恐怖襲擊，殺害了數以千計的人。一年後，即二○○二年，致命疾病（killer disease）沙士影響多個國家與城市，包括中國及香港。A killer disease就是致命的疾病。沙士殺掉了數以百計的人。豬年到底會帶來怎樣的壞運氣，又或者世界會否在二○二○年鼠年二星相合（conjunction）發生之時有更差的運氣，亦無人可以預計得到。

　　蔣匡文告訴我豬年在家中的吉位與凶位。兩大凶位在東北和西南位，你不應移動家中東北位的任何傢俬，也不應在西南位錘敲任何物件。當然，這些都是你相信風水才需要做的事。至於土星與木星相合（conjunction）會否帶來厄運，亦取決於你是否相信這一類的事。若你想知道蔣匡文所告訴我的全部內容，歡迎收看於二月五日、農曆新年年初一播出的節目。祝大家豬年快樂！

中譯:七刻

Michael Chugani 褚簡寧