The farmers are transplanting rice seedlings in the field.
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culture
One stage of the rice cycle in China: 育秧 (raise seedlings) to 插秧 (transplant) to 除草 (weed) to 收割 (harvest) to 打谷 (thresh) to 晒谷 (dry). Historically backbreaking hand labor, celebrated in the famous Tang poem 《悯农》 ("锄禾日当午").
