The Fifth Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival fell on Friday. Our photographers recorded highlights of the harvest.
Villagers ride in wooden coracles to harvest water chestnuts in a pond in Deqing county, Zhejiang province, on Sept 7. (WANG ZHENG / FOR CHINA DAILY)
Farmers thresh corn on a sunning ground in Luojia village in Zigui county, Hubei province, on Sept 4. (ZHENG JIAYU / FOR CHINA DAILY)
Farmers weigh bags of roxburgh rose fruit for a trader in Baihua village in Qianxi city, Guizhou province, on Sept 13. (ZHOU XUNCHAO / FOR CHINA DAILY)
Farmers harvest rice in a paddy field in Niuling village in Nanchang, Jiangxi province, on Sept 19. (LI JIE / FOR CHINA DAILY)
Farm workers pack Gracilaria, a type of red algae, at a port in Ningde, Fujian province, on Sept 14. (WANG WANGWANG / FOR CHINA DAILY)
Workers harvest grapes in the vineyard of Chateau Walphon in Ningxia Hui autonomous region on Sept 16. (WANG PENG / XINHUA)
Fishermen are busy shuttling around various seafood breeding farms in the sea in Rongcheng, Shandong province, on Sept 18. (LI XINJUN / FOR CHINA DAILY)