A farmer displays freshly picked tea leaves at a tea plantation in Xuyi County of Huai'an, east China's Jiangsu Province, on April 3, 2025.

Farmers were busy harvesting tea leaves shortly before the Qingming Festival 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. (Photo by Zhao Qirui/Xinhua)