Villagers pick tea leaves from ancient tea trees in Xiushan Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, April 2, 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 Hu Cheng/Xinhua)