{"id":162243,"date":"2025-06-06T06:28:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T06:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/162243\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T06:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T06:28:13","slug":"explainer-why-china-youth-find-special-spots-to-cry-for-stress-relief-like-forbidden-city-courthouses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/162243\/","title":{"rendered":"Explainer | Why China youth find special spots to cry for stress relief, like Forbidden City, courthouses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A growing number of young Chinese adults in search of emotional release are taking things to a new geographical level.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They have turned to designated so-called city cry spots such as courthouses, psychiatric hospitals, and even tourist landmarks like the Forbidden City, to freely weep in public.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Young people in China are increasingly overwhelmed by work stress, rising unemployment, economic uncertainty, and a growing sense of urban fatigue, prompting many to seek emotional release.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Experienced \u201ccrying veterans\u201d have begun sharing lesser-known but surprisingly effective places to cry.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Forbidden City in Beijing is considered a good place to cry because of its \u201cpoetic\u201d atmosphere. Photo: Shutterstock\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0d9e3194-61bd-43d2-968f-f564d2ed2b69_9833b9fe.jpg\" title=\"The Forbidden City in Beijing is considered a good place to cry because of its \u201cpoetic\u201d atmosphere. Photo: Shutterstock\"\/>The Forbidden City in Beijing is considered a good place to cry because of its \u201cpoetic\u201d atmosphere. Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Some recommend courthouse entrances and cemeteries, while others choose Peking University Sixth Hospital, a well-known psychiatric facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A growing number of young Chinese adults in search of emotional release are taking things to a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[52400,933,52969,12098,3801,68291,68290,55498,68278,24156,1395,16536,68274,68276,68285,68298,68275,68286,18223,68294,21736,68280,15991,474,68296,7078,105,68288,1867,68293,218,55533,729,44334,68281,68284,6512,68277,34389,68287,7567,10741,68292,68282,10743,25135,68297,30364,4920,68279,68283,68295,16,5664,15,16344,25992,25394,68289],"class_list":{"0":"post-162243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-airport","9":"tag-animals","10":"tag-atmosphere","11":"tag-balance","12":"tag-beijing","13":"tag-blind-dates","14":"tag-breaking-down","15":"tag-carrots","16":"tag-cemeteries","17":"tag-ceremony","18":"tag-china","19":"tag-chinese","20":"tag-competitive","21":"tag-courthouse","22":"tag-crazy","23":"tag-crazy-cry-saturday","24":"tag-cry","25":"tag-da-vinci","26":"tag-economic","27":"tag-effective","28":"tag-emotional","29":"tag-exhaustion","30":"tag-fatigue","31":"tag-finance","32":"tag-forbidden-city","33":"tag-hair","34":"tag-health","35":"tag-high-pressure","36":"tag-hospital","37":"tag-locations","38":"tag-mental-health","39":"tag-nanjing","40":"tag-nature","41":"tag-peking-university","42":"tag-poetic","43":"tag-popularity","44":"tag-privacy","45":"tag-psychiatric","46":"tag-release","47":"tag-ritual","48":"tag-screen","49":"tag-shanghai","50":"tag-shaving","51":"tag-shed-tears","52":"tag-shenzhen","53":"tag-singing","54":"tag-solitude","55":"tag-stadium","56":"tag-stress","57":"tag-summer-palace","58":"tag-sunset","59":"tag-tolerant","60":"tag-uk","61":"tag-unemployment","62":"tag-united-kingdom","63":"tag-urban","64":"tag-weep","65":"tag-worker","66":"tag-zoo"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}