{"id":47618,"date":"2022-04-26T09:13:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T16:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47618"},"modified":"2022-04-26T09:13:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T16:13:16","slug":"local-farmers-harvest-tea-in-rizhao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47618","title":{"rendered":"Local farmers harvest tea in Rizhao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(chinadaily.com.cn)<\/em><i class=\"vline\">|<\/i><em>Updated : 2022-04-16<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Local farmers are busy picking tea leaves as the weather gets warmer in Rizhao, Shandong province.<\/p>\n<p>Rizhao is renowned as the &#8220;hometown of green tea&#8221; in northern China. The city has a tea planting area of about 19,933 hectares, with an annual output of 19,000 tons of dried tea and a value of 3.7 billion yuan ($581 million) as of March 2022.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"1092548\" title=\"1650852164302052208.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/subsites.chinadaily.com.cn\/shandong\/att\/20220425\/1650852164302052208.jpg\" alt=\"11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Farmers dressed in traditional clothing pick tea leaves at a tea garden in Lanshan district in Rizhao, Shandong province on April 16. [Photo\/Dazhong News]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"1092549\" title=\"1650852173171045704.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/subsites.chinadaily.com.cn\/shandong\/att\/20220425\/1650852173171045704.jpg\" alt=\"12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Children play at a tea garden in Lanshan district in Rizhao, Shandong province. Rizhao is a major tea production area in northern China. The early batch of spring green tea is considered to be the best and most expensive due to its special fragrance and taste. [Photo\/Dazhong News]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"1092550\" title=\"1650852184292008531.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/subsites.chinadaily.com.cn\/shandong\/att\/20220425\/1650852184292008531.jpg\" alt=\"13.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An aerial photo taken on April 16 shows farmers picking tea leaves at a tea garden in Rizhao, Shandong province. [Photo\/Dazhong News]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"1092551\" title=\"1650852194606030596.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/subsites.chinadaily.com.cn\/shandong\/att\/20220425\/1650852194606030596.jpg\" alt=\"14.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Farmers pick tea leaves at a tea garden in Rizhao. The city has ideal growing conditions for green tea, and the green tea in this region is considered to be high quality. [Photo\/Dazhong News]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"1092552\" title=\"1650852202630043308.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/subsites.chinadaily.com.cn\/shandong\/att\/20220425\/1650852202630043308.jpg\" alt=\"16.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Villagers pick fresh tea leaves as the spring tea harvest begins in Rizhao, Shandong province. [Photo\/WeChat account: zhiborizhao]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"1092553\" title=\"1650852211647008974.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/subsites.chinadaily.com.cn\/shandong\/att\/20220425\/1650852211647008974.jpg\" alt=\"17.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rizhao boasts a booming tea industry and the city is building an influential brand of green tea. [Photo\/WeChat account: zhiborizhao]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"1092554\" title=\"1650852221312060041.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/subsites.chinadaily.com.cn\/shandong\/att\/20220425\/1650852221312060041.jpg\" alt=\"18.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A tea plantation in Rizhao. The city has grown into a major green tea producer in China. [Photo\/WeChat account: zhiborizhao]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"1092555\" title=\"1650852231240015510.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/subsites.chinadaily.com.cn\/shandong\/att\/20220425\/1650852231240015510.jpg\" alt=\"19.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The freshly picked tea leaves [Photo\/WeChat account: zhiborizhao]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(chinadaily.com.cn)|Updated : 2022-04-16 Local farmers are&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47619,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47618\/revisions\/47619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}