{"id":29687,"date":"2026-02-19T17:05:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=29687"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:05:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:05:35","slug":"chinese-tourists-escaping-cold-flock-to-malaysia-for-lunar-new-year-festivities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=29687","title":{"rendered":"Chinese tourists escaping cold flock to Malaysia for Lunar New Year festivities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/02\/19\/a5c7ee30-307b-42dc-bb0f-60f01b3b0093_cd31df27.jpg?itok=jOwm8rsJ&amp;v=1771488002\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">More people in China are choosing to stay away from their villages and families during <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Lunar New Year<\/span>, according to Chinese national and businessman Xue Gang, 44.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cOur parents do not mind, and even my parents are currently travelling around China.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cMaybe next year I will bring them to Penang to witness the celebrations here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Xue, who was in <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Malaysia<\/span>\u2019s Penang state with his wife, daughter and friends, said festive performances were no longer common to enjoy back home.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIf we want to watch performances and celebrations, we have to take a train to Shanghai, the closest major city to where we live,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWhile it is nearby, it can be crowded and most of the time we skip it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/southeast-asia\/article\/3343996\/chinese-tourists-escaping-cold-flock-malaysia-lunar-new-year-festivities?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More people in China are choosing to stay away from their villages and families during Lunar New Year, according to Chinese national and businessman Xue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4840],"tags":[107,5349,2423,15935,8711,13821,4349,5593,791],"class_list":["post-29687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-globetrotting","tag-chinese","tag-cold","tag-escaping","tag-festivities","tag-flock","tag-lunar","tag-malaysia","tag-tourists","tag-year","wpcat-4840-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}