When the spring and autumn tea harvests are on, the people in every household can barely snatch four hours sleep a night, because the whole sequence from picking the tea leaves and processing them into their final form, requires more than ten uninterrupted hours, at the least.
坪林人一年的生活作息更是跟著茶事走，尤其是春茶秋茶採收時節，家家戶戶幾乎每天只睡不到四個小時。