"Tea Picking Girl" is a widely circulated folk song. The lyrics depict the image of a hardworking and beautiful female tea picking worker.
The lyrics say, tea-picking girl, go pick tea and pick a lot of green tea leaves. Wearing simple clothes, straw sandals, and a fluttering scarf on her head, she picked tea leaves in the tea mountains with agility and a bamboo basket.
The song expresses the beauty, hard-working and free-spirited character of the tea-picking girl. She exchanges her sweat and efforts for food and clothing in life. This song expresses the power and beauty of peasant labor and is the voice of unanimous praise from the broad masses of working people in China.