You want to go to some deserted place? During Chinese week-long holidays?

Best place to stay during Chinese holidays is your apartment ...

This is '8-years-of-China' experience talking to you! 

Travel around China before or after the Chinese holidays ...

I know what you mean, I like the historical stuff too but everywhere I went that was old and should have been cool was ruined by being 'rebuilt' (the wall) or 'improved' (some of the old temples I saw that were decorated with tacky plastic shit so it looks like a theme park).

I agree with icnif, trying to go anywhere during a public holiday is frustrating and horrible, anywhere of interest - and therefore popular - will have you rubbing shoulders with a plague of domestic tourists following their tour guides who will be screaming at them through a megafone and acting like, well...domestic tourists.

Day or overnight trips near where you live are probably your best bet, that or head out to Xinjiang where Chinese don't go.

I can't reply to the message above ^ I dunno why. Yeah exactly I don't want that stuff. I would go to xinjiang to be honest, but would they allow a foreigner going there? Not sure about all the security and camps and crap is real but would it be fine?

I will go back to Saipan, may live there, free medicare for all paid by the sucker taxpayers on the main land regardless on income and a flat 9 percent income tax, should have lived there 30 years ago. No winter ever, what's not to like?