Farmers pick tea leaves at a tea garden in Maoao Village of Cicheng Town, Ningbo City, east China's Zhejiang Province, on March 20, 2025. Harvest season of the spring tea has arrived in Zhejiang, one of the major tea-growing areas in China. Farmers are busy harvesting tea leaves ahead of 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. (Xinhua/Jiang Han)