# Henan — From basket to old town

Henan · HA_C5

A warm procession of people, tea, and historical silhouettes.

## 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/HA_C5.png) · [exact TXT](/assets/prompts/HA_C5.txt) · [browser dossier](/en/docs/designs/HA_C5.html) · [collection context](/en/docs/projects/C5.html).

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

## Review basis

Clear double outline of HENAN, large picker, processing, and tea table; landmarks do not replace tea. Edges are finished, captions are meaningful.

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

#584F2C

#B66B3A

#538A87

## 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: `13fe391580410d3b9648dcd85b426d746d200a404402a1b9fc339087c7091af4`.

```text
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 C5 — LANDMARK PARADE.
Three-ink friendly collector illustration with bold relaxed rounded pen outlines and a memorable double-contour regional title. Draw a lively continuous procession with real changes of height, overlapping contour and unequal object scale. Tea workers, architecture and regional vessels participate in the same visual rhythm. Spare flat colour accents; interiors largely open. The connection must be a plausible local promenade, street, ridge or water route, not an arbitrary baseline of identical icons. Charming observational details without cartoon faces on objects.

REGION: HENAN. EXACT PALETTE: #584F2C, #B66B3A, #538A87. 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.

Begin with a near Xinyang harvest basket and relaxed tea picker. Round contours lead through a tea-sorting veranda, a low tea table, Shaolin's layered eaves, a Kaifeng arched bridge and a small Longmen carved niche. Farther back the Dabie hills step up and a simple Yellow River ferry lowers the rhythm again. Add a Tongbai tea sprig at the opposite end as a true southern tea anchor. People remain working or talking, never martial-arts caricatures serving as decorative mascots.

REGIONAL TRUTH: Henan tea production is concentrated in its southern hills. Xinyang Maojian is a fine green tea, with Shihe a core district and the Dongjiahe tea mountains an established origin. Its craft includes spreading, pan fixation/rolling, shaping and drying. Guangshan, Shangcheng and Xinxian are real tea-producing areas in the wider Xinyang region; Tongbai is a distinct southern Henan tea area. Xinyang Hong is black tea, not the same processing as Maojian. Never place tea plantations across the northern Yellow River plain or grow tea among the Longmen carvings. Shaolin, Kaifeng and Luoyang are cultural travel motifs, not asserted tea estates.

SPECIFIC COMPOSITION: A varied low-high-low procession surrounds the double-contour HENAN title. The harvest basket is much larger than the ferry; temple and tea table overlap through an open garden path. Three inks, clear walls and transparent arches give the drawing the warmth of a well-made travel cup.

TEXT: Main title exactly "HENAN". Secondary labels, each once and attached to its correct scene: Xinyang Maojian; Tongbai; Shaolin; Kaifeng. 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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