It's never too late to hold a solo show

At age 84, Zhong Han describes himself as an "immature elderly painter", and that he is only "a tree in the forest that keeps absorbing nutrition from the earth".

Zhong's modesty and persistence in chasing perfection explain why he has just held a solo exhibition, celebrating his six-decade love of oil painting.

A professor with the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Zhong is displaying nearly 300 works at his retrospective, titled Earth and Humanity, at the National Art Museum of China.