After the 2023 Spring Festival holiday, lines for divorce registration were reported at civil-affairs offices in several parts of China. Appointment slots filled and applications concentrated on the first day that offices reopened, a phenomenon described online as “Divorce Day.”
What distinguishes this queue is that couples were not waiting at an office that formalised marriage, but to end a legal relationship. Applications clustered immediately after a long family holiday, turning private decisions into a visible line at a public counter.
The article was re-edited against that direct evidence without adding unverified crowd sizes or waiting times.