Homecoming and Reunion · World Questions

Which of these best matches your own (or your family's) way of getting home?

In which country is the heaviest homecoming season not a legal holiday at all — it happens only because companies schedule their own leave the same week?

Which pattern comes closest to your own homecoming experience?

The homecoming pressure here comes in two stretches — one right after New Year's Day, the other in mid-summer. The heavier of the two isn't a statutory holiday at all; companies each set their own closure around it, so the exact dates shift year to year. Yet it jams the bullet trains and expressways nationwide as hard as any legally mandated day off. Where is this?

Guess: in which community is the year's most visible nationwide pause not actually a statutory holiday at all?

Asked by the 🇺🇸 English community

For the 🇨🇳 中文(简体) community

To get home for the big holiday, what do you usually travel by?

Guess: which community sees tens of millions travel home at once in the yearly “mudik” exodus?