The story of the tea picker

Tea-picking girl is a typical folk custom in China, which is widely spread in southern tea areas of China. Legend has it that the tea-picking girl is a hardworking and kind girl. She works at sunrise and returns at sunset, in a tea garden in the mountain area. With her superb tea-picking skills and labor ability, she not only helped her family to work, but also became an important labor force in the tea garden.

Most of the stories of tea pickers describe her day in the tea garden, how to pick tea well, how to skillfully select, classify and process tea by hand, and then pack and transport it home. Tea-picking women represent the excellent qualities of diligence, frugality, pragmatism and simplicity in China traditional culture. Her image is also widely used in literary creation and commercial promotion.

Tea-picking women are not only a cultural symbol, but also a representative of productive labor mode. The tea culture in China promotes the tea-picking culture, and respects and respects the image and spiritual connotation of tea-picking women. In some places, monuments or sculptures of tea pickers have been built.