{"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":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"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":["post-162243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-airport","tag-animals","tag-atmosphere","tag-balance","tag-beijing","tag-blind-dates","tag-breaking-down","tag-carrots","tag-cemeteries","tag-ceremony","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-competitive","tag-courthouse","tag-crazy","tag-crazy-cry-saturday","tag-cry","tag-da-vinci","tag-economic","tag-effective","tag-emotional","tag-exhaustion","tag-fatigue","tag-finance","tag-forbidden-city","tag-hair","tag-health","tag-high-pressure","tag-hospital","tag-locations","tag-mental-health","tag-nanjing","tag-nature","tag-peking-university","tag-poetic","tag-popularity","tag-privacy","tag-psychiatric","tag-release","tag-ritual","tag-screen","tag-shanghai","tag-shaving","tag-shed-tears","tag-shenzhen","tag-singing","tag-solitude","tag-stadium","tag-stress","tag-summer-palace","tag-sunset","tag-tolerant","tag-uk","tag-unemployment","tag-united-kingdom","tag-urban","tag-weep","tag-worker","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}]}}