# Jiangsu: Research and Seven Compositions Preparation date: 4 October 2026. The original regional map was reviewed visually; its painterly conventions are not considered geographical evidence. ## Inventory of the source map Taihu, Biluochun: tea rows, pickers, island pagoda; Yixing Hills: two kilns, workshop, and teapots. Suzhou: garden, pavilion, moon gate, bridge, and pond. In the center a water town with an arched bridge, boats, and white houses. Nanjing: wall and city gate. Yangzhou: pavilions, bridge, and willows; Xuzhou with a pagoda. Grand Canal, Yangtze River, lakes Hongze/Gaoyou and sea salt fields; Yancheng/Nantong/Changzhou/Wuxi/Zhenjiang, junks. The map decoratively shifts Lake Gaoyou south of the Yangtze; this is not carried over into the geographical caption. ## Confirmed tea base Dongting Biluochun belongs to Dongshan and Xishan/Jinting by Lake Taihu and its tea-fruit intercropping landscape. Its fine curled leaves are shaped by hand in a pan. Nanjing Yuhua is a needle-shaped green tea, not Biluochun. Yixing combines Yangxian tea production with a separate zisha teaware craft; pots are not grown or mass wheel-thrown as porcelain. Lianyungang has Yunwu tea. Yangzhou's tea-table culture and tea refreshments provide a hospitality counterpart. Keep these distinct growing, processing, vessel-making and social functions visible. No medicinal effects or invented claim that the lake is itself planted with tea. ## Limitations and interpretation The name Dongting refers to the Taihu hills, not Dongting Lake in Hunan. Distinguish Yangxian cultivation from ceramic production. A map with an incorrect decorative position of Gaoyou does not serve for navigation. Do not transfer the disputed story of Biluochun's name from Kangxi, mechanical "fruit aroma absorption" or prices. Details of sculptures and kilns are stylized. ## Sources - [tea.travel — Jiangsu](https://tea.travel/en/region/jiangsu/) — Biluochun, Yixing, Nanjing, Lianyungang reviewed; unconfirmed records excluded. - [Suzhou Agriculture — tea-fruit system](https://nyncj.suzhou.gov.cn/nlj/zwyw/202402/a4fcd869e4b4418c9da1330973c6763e.shtml) — Dongshan/Xishan, tea alongside fruit trees. - [Suzhou — Biluochun protection](https://www.suzhou.gov.cn/szsrmzf/gbdfxfg/202403/4633ff414f894d119221022e55ba44a9.shtml) — Definition of origin and processing. - [China Intangible Heritage — Jiangsu tea](https://www.ihchina.cn/project_details/28513.html) — Biluochun, Yuhua and Yangzhou Fuchun tea refreshments. - [Yixing Government — Yangxian tea](https://www.yixing.gov.cn/doc/2022/11/11/1096872.shtml) — Yixing as a tea-producing district. - [China Weather — Jiangsu tea](https://www.weather.com.cn/jiangsu/tqyw/03/3172123.shtml) — The official meteorological service confirms Lianyungang Yunwu tea. ## Seven independent solutions ### C1: Hands of leaf and clay Two Jiangsu crafts meet in one elegant atlas. The two crafts share one sinuous bench-and-lake rhythm, with a transparent opening between them. A fruit branch arcs above one edge of the title, the teapot handle echoes it below. Two-ink engraved detail is concentrated on leaves and hands; distant trees and eaves remain simple. ### C2: Letters on the lake The tea word holds on the shores, workshops, and gardens. A lakeside walkway and workbench visually thread the letter feet, with most water remaining transparent. The large pan and small clay pot are close foreground objects, roof and orchard midground, boat far away. Preserve all letter contours and a broad quiet pocket around each short caption. ### C3: Lake of tea crafts An open water loop links production, vessel, and tea drinking. The inlet, arched footbridge and open courtyard give natural clear glaze inside the connected image. Condensed JIANGSU sits along a lower garden wall, with no solid footer. Arrange hands large, buildings medium and tea hills small; never squeeze six identical mini-scenes into rows. ### C4: Tea at the Moon Gate A classical garden opens up a true tea landscape. The moon gate is an architectural ring with genuinely transparent interior gaps, not a filled circle. Roofline and curved garden edge join the two heroes. Tall serif JIANGSU sits above the lower canal houses. Selective line texture distinguishes clay, wood and fruit leaves without grey shading. ### C5: Teapot and water town A friendly procession of tea professions along the canals. Use the canal's open edge and uneven roof heights as the continuous rhythm. The near pot is larger than the far tower and boat; only a few elements overlap. Three inks provide occasional roof, garment and leaf patches while canals, gate openings and most vessel interiors stay clear. ### C6: From garden to kiln An energetic line leads tea through the lake and craft world. The shallow S connects orchard, boat and clay work through shared contour echoes. Slanted JIANGSU rests above the main bridge. Fine directional marks describe clay tools and wicker selectively, while letter edges, hands and spouts are crisp. No filled blue water ribbon. ### C7: Garden mug in outlines Ten recognizable open episodes of water, tea and ceramics. Only upper serif JIANGSU is written. Moon gate and kiln are taller; pan and table broader; boat small. Let the fruit branch lean toward the nearby picker and pair the boat with bridge, leaving irregular open glaze elsewhere. No solid garden panorama or equal-size icon boxes. ## Production format Generation: 3840 × 1280 px, PNG RGBA, true transparency. Drawing and letters fully within x60–3780 / y110–1170. Final print spread: 3840 × 1152 px, 250 × 75 mm. English only, no microtext or Chinese. C7 contains only the region name. C1 — two colors; C2/C3 — five; C4–C7 — three. The palette is individual for each region. Visual verification and the fact of generation are not implied by the presence of this study.