Peng wows nation with chic, charm

Accompanying her husband, President Xi Jinping, on a three-day visit to India, Peng Liyuan has left India's media singing her praises for sartorial elegance, calligraphy and, her forte, singing.

The Telegraph in Kolkata wrote: "Peng led scores of children at New Delhi's Tagore International School in singing Homesick by 8th- century poet Li Bai.

"Peng also showed off her skills in Chinese calligraphy (and) wrote down a maxim by Confucius on a board before explaining in English, 'If you want to learn new things, you have to look at the past and understand it'."