It's a bit lonely for the Chinese who choose to stay put instead of returning to their hometowns to spend the seven-day Spring Festival holiday, which is traditionally a day for a family reunion. However, those born in the 1990s have their versions of the stay-put festival.

Some of them will enhance their connection with relatives and friends who also remain in the cities where they work or study to spend the festival.

Liu Chuanhui, born in 1996 and a postgraduate student at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, told CGTN that she would go to visit her brother's family on New Year's Eve and enjoy the family reunion dinner together.

As she is working on an ongoing experiment, she will spend some days checking the experiment's progress while sparing some days visiting her friends who study at other universities in Beijing.

Unlike Liu, Ericeast Zhang, born in 1990, has to be on duty for some days. Zhang told CGTN that he would enjoy dumplings with his flatmates on New Year's Eve, the day when dumplings are a must-have tradition for many Chinese.

As for the rest free days, he will visit some parks or tourist sites while having dinners at restaurants or ordered online.

Some of them choose to have plastic surgery during a few long holidays in a year. There are only two holidays in China, the National Holiday and the Spring Festival Holiday, each lasting seven days.

Lv Yining, a digital practitioner in Beijing, told CGTN that she decided to have double eyelid surgery during the holiday since she could not go anywhere. This is a good time for recovery as she can stay at her apartment the whole holiday without going out.

The hashtag #AGuidelineForYouthToSpendTheStayAtHomeSpringFestival# became a hot topic on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo as more than five million people viewed the topics and joined the discussions.

The guideline gave some advice for young Chinese on dinners and entertainment activities, including soap TV series, films, and physical exercises.

A Weibo user named Yang_o9o9 commented that the guideline reminds him of the dramas he stored on his computer, which he could not spare time to enjoy.

With snacks and Cola at hand, I will enjoy them during the holiday, wrote Yang_o9o9 on his Weibo.