tea-picking

Updated: June 20, 2025

The Muse of China has not disdained to warble harmonious numbers in praise of her favorite beverage. There is a celebrated ballad on tea-picking, in thirty stanzas, sung by a young woman who goes from home early in the day to work, and lightens her labors with song.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858