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Workers harvesting Longjing tea leaves at a tea garden in Zhejiang province, Hangzhou, #China

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Women harvesting tea leaves from neat rows of tea bushes.
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We’re often told that women were chosen to pluck tea because their fingers are small and delicate. But is that the full truth? Or was it because tea plucking was one of the few forms of labour where women could bring their babies with them, carrying them on their backs as they worked?

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