# Chongqing — Roots above two rivers

Chongqing · CQ_C1

A large old tea trunk connects producing areas and urban tea drinking.

## Published file

250 × 75 mm · 3840 × 1152 px · RGBA · 390.144 / 390.144 ppi.

Checked for publication · Drawing review and technical check of the current file

[PNG](/assets/artwork/CQ_C1.png) · [exact TXT](/assets/prompts/CQ_C1.txt) · [dossier in browser](/en/docs/designs/CQ_C1.html) · [collection context](/en/docs/projects/C1.html).

[Regional research and sources](/en/docs/research/chongqing.md).

## Review basis

Corrected engraving reviewed: clean lines of tree and hands, all five tea captions readable. Previous smoky texture eliminated; coherent scene without edge cropping.

PNG RGBA 3840 × 1152 px; real alpha channel; proportional export 250 × 75 mm.

Approved after review for the open gallery; does not imply the user's endorsement of industrial production.

## Creative brief palette

#41343E

#DB633C

## Original generation prompt

The text below matches the published TXT. Inscriptions, details, and palette in the assignment are the author's intent; this is not OCR of the final image. Reference images used are not included in the TXT.

SHA-256 TXT: `a0c55e2e9c60bf198267a1742640d85b09ada1e237e1df00411334854e8135bb`.

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REVISED PRODUCTION PRIORITY: Render exceptionally clean sharp linework and crisp lettering, never a blurred imitation of the reference. Every outside edge and all empty openings must be truly transparent alpha zero. Absolutely no opaque white canvas. All complete objects must end at least 100 pixels before left/right borders and 120 pixels before top/bottom borders; do not crop the drawing. Use defined ink strokes with transparent gaps instead of fog, grey halos or soft shadows. Preserve the regional composition below. The supplied reference has a white viewing surface; this viewing surface is not part of the new output.

Create an exceptional original flat illustration for a collectible tea-region ceramic wrap. The attached image is a STYLE reference, not a content reference: preserve its drawing intelligence, print character and relationship between title, scenes and empty glaze; replace every Guangdong-specific subject and word. Output one panoramic native 3840 x 1280 pixel PNG with a genuine RGBA alpha channel. All artwork, including lettering, must remain wholly inside x60..3780 and y110..1170. The upper and lower outside bands and the external negative space must be transparent, not white paint. The final production crop will be 3840 x 1152 pixels for a 250 x 75 mm wrap; do not draw dimensions, crop marks or a frame. No mug, mockup, photograph, simulated paper, decorative rectangular background, cast shadow, checkerboard or watermark.

DRAWING AND PRINT DISCIPLINE: Use confident authored linework, recognisable local silhouettes, selective flat colour and well-resolved hands, vessels and architecture. Details reward close looking but the main story reads across a small ceramic surface. Colour belongs to actual drawn objects or deliberate bounded accents. Transparent sky, river openings, architectural gaps and open vessel interiors are part of the design. Do not use a continuous opaque landscape base, atmosphere wash, cream substrate or enormous filled silhouette behind everything. Keep deliberate pauses between major masses without making a sticker sheet. Never cut off a letter, roof, person, handle or tree at the image boundary. Do not scatter repeated generic teapots as filler. Each featured tea action must communicate a different part of the region's tea story. This is an illustrated interpretation, not a navigable map: no compass, coordinate grid, dotted connectors, numbered pins, legend or tiny labels.

COLLECTION C1 — ENGRAVED TEA CONSTELLATION.
Two carefully separated spot inks. Organic engraved contours, selective small hatching and beautiful botanical structure, not grey photographic shading. A major tea subject anchors one side while smaller living stories nest into shared terraces, a riverbank or an architectural contour; these threads connect the illustration without enclosing it. A tall narrow serif regional title occupies a clear deliberate pocket. Vary foreground, middle distance and far silhouettes; avoid uniform line density and isolated circular vignettes.

REGION: CHONGQING. EXACT PALETTE: #41343E, #DB633C. Use only these opaque graphic inks and their clean antialiased edges; no white ink, black substitution or extra colours. Transparent negative space is not an additional ink.

An old branching Nanchuan Dashucha tree is the grand foreground hero, left of centre; a tea keeper reaches toward a low branch with a shallow basket, not a laddered orchard fantasy. Its rising limb frames the title. Under its open canopy, small Yongchuan pickers move through curved cultivated rows. At right a Xiushan maker rotates leaves in a broad iron pan; the open mouth of the pan is beautifully legible. Fuling tea shoots and a Banan needle-tea serving tray form distinct close discoveries. Farther back the two rivers meet beneath a modest stepped Chongqing tea terrace with two gaiwan drinkers. Make bark, leaf venation, iron pan and porcelain visibly different materials in only two inks.

REGIONAL TRUTH: Yongchuan Xiuya is a needle-shaped green tea. Banan Yinzhen, Xiushan Maojian and Fuling Baicha are documented regional tea names; do not infer white-tea processing merely from the name Baicha. Nanchuan has Dashucha trees and Jinfo Mountain tea traditions. Xiushan Maojian is made in the Wuling Mountains, including hand pan-firing. Show Chongqing as both a producing region and a city of gaiwan hospitality. Tea terraces belong to these rural districts, not to downtown towers. The Yangtze and Jialing confluence and local stepped riverside architecture identify the municipality. Do not depict Xiling Gorge or Badong as Chongqing sites.

SPECIFIC COMPOSITION: A sweeping root-and-river contour rises from the left foreground tree through middle terraces to the right city stair. The clear confluence is an irregular transparent channel, never a filled blue band. Tree and pan are unequal counterweights. Four short locality labels follow quiet edges; a city gaiwan scene stays small enough that rural tea work dominates.

TEXT: Main title exactly "CHONGQING". Secondary labels, each once and attached to its correct scene: Yongchuan Xiuya; Nanchuan; Xiushan Maojian; Banan Yinzhen; Fuling Baicha. No other text.

FINAL ART DIRECTION: Make every major group different in scale and gesture. Do not give every scene a surrounding halo or a separate base. A viewer should discover a clear regional idea at arm's length and then human actions, leaf shapes and local building features nearby. Keep the specified palette visible as actual graphic inks, not merely a tint over green scenery. Do not add unrequested slogans, stamps, logos, dates, Chinese characters or gibberish. The exact allowed English words below are the entire text vocabulary. Keep secondary words comfortably readable if allowed; omit a minor caption rather than shrinking it to microscopic lettering. Render the regional title exactly once and complete, with comfortable space around it. No extra title repeated on vessels or buildings. Draw a finished cohesive piece of print art, never a presentation board.
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