It’s 5.50am, with just a faint purple light glowing on the horizon, when a group of children aged six to 15 march diligently towards their classrooms.
At 6.15am, they begin lessons in Chinese, English and math. At 7.50am, they stop for breakfast.
There’s no time to linger, students must be clean and dressed by 8.30am, when they head upstairs to two spacious rooms on the first floor of an L-shaped building near the center of Liaoning’s provincial capital, Shenyang.
Here the real training begins. This is not academics, but acrobatics.
The boys and girls prepare to bend their bodies backwards until they can hold their legs with their hands.
“One, two, three!” instructs Wang Ying, 47, head
Dec 24, 2019