Fuding, Fujian: Spring Tea Harvest

Terraced Tea Bushes Ready for Spring Tea Harvest

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Withering Tea on the Roads

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View from the Top of the Mountain

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Rows of Tea Bushes

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Walking Around the Mountain Where the Tea Grows

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Moody Tea Picking Time

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Carrying Morning's Tea Harvest

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Tea Picker Harvesting Spring Tea Leaves

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Misty Cloud Cover over the Rows of Tea Bushes

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Hi!

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Close-Up on Tea Leaves Still on the Bush

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Tea Leaves Just Plucked from the Tea Bush

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BRB

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Heading Back with the Morning's Work

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Living Quarters for Tea Pickers

Tea Picking is seasonal labor in China, and this is the housing for workers who come to the tea farm for the spring harvest season.

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Where the Day's Work of Tea Leaves Picked is Weighed in and Recorded

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Smelling the Pile of Freshly Picked Leaves Withering

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Freshly Picked Tea Leaves Withering

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The Room for Controlled Oxidation

Here the bamboo mats are collapsed. See next photo to see them in use.

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Tea Leaves Undergoing Controlled Oxidation

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Excited by the Wall of Tea Oxidation

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Tea Leaves in the Withering Stage

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Studying the Tea Leaves as They Say...

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Finished White Peony White Tea

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They Even Press Some White Tea into Discs Like Pu'er!

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About to Try Different Grades of White Tea

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Pretty Excited About It

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Getting Ready for a Tasting

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Beautiful Color Gradient of Tea

All different white teas all from the same farm but different grades and different harvest times.

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Concentrating on the Sip

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Tony gets to Try Too

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Bye Beautiful Fuding!

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