Farmers pick tea leaves early to ensure best taste (1/5)

A tea farmer presents a handful of newly-picked tea leaves at the Lushan Yunwu Tea Base in Jiujiang City, east China's Jiangxi Province, March 18, 2013. Tea farmers here are busy with picking tea leaves before the Qingming Festival which falls on April 4 this year, as this kind of tea is regarded to have the best taste among all green teas. (Xinhua/Zhang Haiyan)