A billion Chinese trips upended - again Lily Kuo, The Washington Post Feb. 5, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Du Zini makes a traditional dish of smoked pork and luhao, based on her mother's recipe, in August 2020. This year is the first time she won't celebrate the Lunar New Year at home with her parents.Family photo. TAIPEI, Taiwan - In the six years since Du Zini left home, she has never missed Lunar New Year. Du, who works at a forestry company in Nanning, more than 700 miles from her hometown in China's Jiangxi province, spends all year looking forward to those two weeks at home when she is doted on by her parents.