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 ...

At an annual festival in Xuyi County ... foods in the traditional way as well as for the changing Chinese palate. Farmers harvest wheat in a village on the Loess Plateau, a highly fertile area ...

Chinese officials ... its vital tea-producing farmers. "Because we have known rain, we don’t want to leave anyone behind," said Liu Zhiqing, a local official, at the festival's opening on ...