There’s even a vintage Chinese tea, sheng pu-erh that improves with age, just like a fine wine. “It’s not considered fully done until it’s fermented 30 years. Then we have the shou pu-erh.

It goes from easy to difficult, simple to complex, imitating to free writing, technique to art. Since 2013, it has been a mandatory weekly lesson in all primary and middle schools in China.

This primary school in China has taken the phrase 'raising the bar' to a new level. The institution, in Wuhan, Hubei Province, has literally installed metal bars on to each of its students' desks.

It can be a struggle for some non-Chinese pupils studying at Chinese primary school, ... they can only engage in simple conversation using Mandarin. ... reading and writing over and over again.