How Chinese New Year reunions are changing in China
How Chinese New Year reunions are changing in China
Every Chinese New Year, millions of Chinese squeeze onto packed trains, buses and planes back to their hometowns.
It’s an annual homecoming rooted in the deeply held belief that children should return to their elders to usher in the new year together.
But the flow of travel is shifting. Increasingly, it’s parents who are journeying from rural hometowns to the cities where their children now live and work.
Take Zhou Songlin (seen here with his sister) and his son Joe, 42, a public relations consultant. This year, instead of their hometown Changsha in Central China’s Hunan province, they are south in Guangzhou, where Joe is based.
