
Farmers pick tea leaves during a tea festival marking start of a pick season at Hufu Township of Yixing, east China's Jiangsu Province, March 25, 2012. Merchants, tourists and farmers gathered here to spend the festival Sunday. (Xinhua/Min Xueping)

Farmers talk as they pick spring tea leaves during a tea festival marking start of a pick season at Hufu Township of Yixing, east China's Jiangsu Province, March 25, 2012. Merchants, tourists and farmers gathered here to spend the festival Sunday. (Xinhua/Ding Huanxin)

A farmer processes the spring tea during a tea festival marking start of a pick season at Hufu Township of Yixing, east China's Jiangsu Province, March 25, 2012. Merchants, tourists and farmers gathered here to spend the festival Sunday. (Xinhua/Min Xueping)