Hubei Yichang Tianwen Education Group has designated "everyone learns to beat eggs" as a school-based course for the new semester. According to incomplete statistics, in Jiangsu and Anhui provinces alone, more than 20 million people regularly participate in various egg-cracking activities.
In 2023, egg-breaking has been listed as a performance event at the Fifth National Intellectual Games, competing with traditional events such as chess, bridge, and backgammon. The school emphasizes that "it is not a compulsory course, it is just an interest course, and it is not compulsory"