Before the taste buds can savor it, it is already a feast for the eyes. The hard work of the farmworkers at the tea planting station in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, makes for a colorful sight. The mostly female pickers only pluck the two finest leaves and the leaf bud and carry them in their basket or a cloth to the collection point. Only the later processing stage decides whether the leaves will become green or black tea.