There is about half a month left before Chinese Spring Festival. Like the Christmas in the Western, Spring Festival is the most important festival in China. All of the people in China will go their home and have a reunion with their families. Reunion is the most important thing for Festival. No matter the distance they live, they will try to go home in that day.

Chuxi (New Year’s Eve) is the last evening of the twelfth lunar month. In Chinese, Chu literally means remove or change, and Xi means night. Thus Chuxi implies that the old year ends at this night, and the new one begins tomorrow.The reunion dinner, sacrificing to the ancestors, watching Spring Festival Party on CCTV , and staying up till 12 o’clock, are the major activity in Chuxi.

After the dinner, the whole family sit together, chatting and watching TV, and stay stay up late till the morning to guard the year. The houses are lit up brightly with lamps both outside and inside of the house.

On each New Year’s Eve, each family also sticks on their doors spring couplets and blow up firecrackers. Early in the morning of the 1st of the first lunar month they go to their relatives and friends’ to send their regards and congratulations.

The fireworks and the red color serve in order to drive away the year’s monster nian (in Chinese: year), for which according to a legend the Chinese once had immense fear and did conceal themselves in their flats in the evening until they found out, that the monster would come only one time during the year and that it feared noise and red color.

At the New Year’s Day during the morning, the Jiaozi, which were prepared in the evening before, are traditionally cooked. Afterwards, the family will gather in order to eat lunch together. However, nowadays, many families prefer going to a restaurant instead of spending New Year’s Day at home.

The Chinese spring festival traditionally ends with the Lantern Feast, which takes place on the 15th day of the New Year. The temples are decorated with lanterns at that day. Families go for a walk with self-made (or bought) lanterns holding in their hands and they eat the famous yuebing (moon cake), since there is a full moon at that day.

A family car needs to be adaptable, to accommodate an adult or teen driver; equipped with safety features to protect passengers of all ages and sizes; offer a range of flexibility to add cargo space when needed; and provide easy access to rear seats (for car seats or adults who may sit in back).

“Families come in all shapes and sizes,” says Kristin Varela, chief mother and senior editor at motherproof.com, which evaluates vehicles with children in mind. “And this is the up-and-coming sandwiched generation that is caring for aging parents and young children.”

With development of the auto industry,  the environment problems become a vital issue for people all over the world. So when you are enjoying the life brought by the auto, you  need to save the energy as possible as you can.

To buy a fuel-efficient car is a good choice.When it comes to fuel economy, it should be a concern for anyone buying a family car since gas prices have topped $4 a gallon. However, safety features are at the top of consumers’ considerations, according to a study by Ford Motor Company . Ford found that nearly 70% of car buyers are interested in side air bags, and 65% are interested in electronic stability control.

But since fuel prices can’t be ignored entirely, Consumer Reports says a combined mpg of 17 to 20 or higher is a good target for a family ride. Keep in mind, however, the larger the family–and, hence, the family car–the lower the fuel economy is likely to be. That’s not to say, however, that automakers don’t do their best to build larger cars that don’t guzzle gas.

Recently, a movie called Avatar is very popular all over the world.With its incredibly stunning visuals and compelling story line, James Cameron’s “Avatar” is memorable and meaningful. It’s so much more than a film that looks cool with a 3-D treatment.

 Avatar was extraordinary only because of its special effects. So congratulations should go to the geniuses at Weta Digital, the company responsible for producing them over the course of two years. Instead, last night the Golden Globes judges named Cameron “Best Director” and – mind-bogglingly – Avatar the “Best Drama”.

It’s a environmental parable, in other words, and a clumsy one at that. I’ve written at length about Avatar’s patronising and racist subtext: how the blue-skinned Na’vi, a pastiche of this planet’s “ethnic” races, are utterly powerless without the help of a principled white man. And how I was disgusted that the Na’vi – like the Africans in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness – demonstrate a “triumphant bestiality”. (Cameron is so obviously 2009’s worst lefty.)

What I have yet to hit home, however, is Avatar’s overall failure as a film. But you know what? The Vatican newspaper already has that spot on . It’s “bland”, a reviewer wrote in L’Osservatore Romano last week. “It has a great deal of enchanting, stunning technology, but few genuine or human emotions. Its significance is in its visual impact rather than in the story, and in its messages, despite the fact that they are hardly new.”

Finally, the review lays into Cameron who, “concentrating on the creation of the fantasy world of Pandora, chooses a bland approach. He tells the story without any profound exploration.”