The story of the tea picker

On the steep tea mountain and the flat mountain nest, groups of tea-picking women shuttle through rows of tea forests, forming a beautiful scenery. The arrival of these tea pickers has also added some bright colors to this lonely tea mountain, full of poetry and vitality. These tea-picking women from Henan and Anhui are ordinary, hardworking and simple.

At 6 o'clock in the morning, they went up the mountain to work with the sunrise, and when the sun went down, they called it a day. Different from the past, today's tea pickers are getting older. Nowadays, there are many employment opportunities. Many girls don't like the hard work of picking tea, and they earn a lot by working outside, so tea picking girls are very popular now.

Young tea-picking women are gradually replaced by older aunts, aunts and even tea-picking grandmothers, while skilled tea-picking women are the objects of competition among tea gardens. Spring tea is picked against time, and new leaves grow fast. Pick it in time, or you will grow old overnight, and the super tea will become 1 grade tea, grade 2 tea, and finally become a useless big leaf.

In order to ensure the quality, only one bud and one leaf can be picked at a time, and a tea-picking woman can only pick qualified fresh leaves of about 1 kg a day. Although the living conditions of tea picking girls have been greatly improved, life is still very hard because of the strong seasonality and labor intensity of tea picking. For tea-picking women, in the tea-picking season of more than 20 days,

Each of them can earn an average of more than 2,000 yuan, and some tea pickers can even earn more than 4,000 yuan faster. Moreover, this year's salary has increased greatly, and the round-trip fare has been reimbursed, and labor contracts have been signed. Some even bought personal accident insurance for them, which made them feel a little satisfied in their hard work.

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Entering the tea season, tens of thousands of tea pickers come to the tea farm like migratory birds every year, becoming a unique landscape. Today, we will approach these tea pickers and walk into their tea season life. At about 6 o'clock every day, tea pickers start picking for a day, and Bian Xiao can only go up the mountain to find their trail.

In Chashan, Bian Xiao married Xiao Zhao, a tea picker. Xiao Zhao is 35 years old and comes from Lanling County, Linyi, Shandong Province. This year is the first time she has picked white tea in Anji. Xiao Zhao said that she came with seven or eight tea pickers in the village. Every year, from/KLOC-0 to mid-March, a foreman will come to the village to pick out the unemployed women at home and send them to the tea-picking field to pick tea.

Xiao Zhao said that she arrived here on March 30th and took a bus ride for six or seven hours. Two days ago, because of the cold weather, there was no large-scale picking of tea, so we had to wait for the tea trees to germinate. During this period, the staff of street hospitals and police stations were invited to give them physical examinations and fire drills.

As Xiao Zhao is a novice, he has also experienced two or three days of white tea knowledge popularization and tea picking training. After studying, she mastered the picking skills skillfully. Picking tea is a very hard job. During the tea season, tea pickers get up early every day to race against time.

When the weather is fine, they wear straw hats in the scorching sun; When it rains, they wear raincoats and cover tea baskets; Before the Ming Dynasty 10 degree weather, they wrapped in cotton-padded jackets to pick tea. After Grain Rain, when the temperature rises to 30 degrees, they still wear long-sleeved trousers to prevent mosquito bites.