An aerial drone photo taken on April 2, 2025 shows farmers picking tea leaves at a tea plantation in Pu'er, southwest China's Yunnan Province.

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 Liang Zhiqiang/Xinhua)