As weather turned warm and tea leaves grew faster, many places in China have entered tea harvest season.

Recently, farmers are busy in harvesting tea leaves ahead of the Qingming Festival, which falls on April 5 this year, to produce the Mingqian (literally "pre-Qingming") tea, which are made of the very first tea sprouts in spring and considered to be of high quality.

Workers pick tea leaves at a tea garden in Gaofeng Village of Pingli County, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, March 25, 2018. (Xinhua/Liu Xiao)