RENDERING REQUIREMENTS: Produce a new, completely crisp region-specific illustration. Borrow ONLY drawing style from the references; do not copy their region, title or place names. Use the exact region and English lettering in the brief. No blurred patches, mist, smoky shading, translucent brush smears or soft-focus architectural details. No clipping of objects or letters: keep an 80-pixel clear safety margin around the complete composition. True PNG RGBA transparency between the drawn shapes; no opaque white or coloured backing. Sharp ink edges, legible deliberate lettering.

Create one exceptional, completely flat regional ceramic-print artwork. This is the actual printable illustration, never a cup, product photograph, mockup, presentation board or simulated ceramic surface. The collection reference controls drawing language only: invent a new composition for the specified region and replace all Guangdong-specific objects. The source map supplies a regional inventory, not a paper texture or a layout to trace literally.

TECHNICAL CONTRACT: native canvas exactly 3840 x 1280 pixels, true RGBA PNG. Keep every visible mark, letter, ornament and antialiased edge inside x=60..3780 and y=110..1170. The final delivery will use a centered 3840 x 1152 export for a 250 x 75 mm wrap; leave the native safety area completely transparent. Compose for a long horizontal physical print, not a conventional poster. Nothing is cut off at either end. All exterior space and meaningful holes between objects must have alpha zero. No painted background, white underpainting, sky rectangle, tinted paper, land silhouette, colour fog, opaque backdrop or checkerboard. The wearer-visible ceramic supplies the unprinted space. Use the specified colours as ink, with normal edge antialiasing; do not invent extra white, black or metallic ink. Never print dimensions, crop marks, palette swatches, filenames, reference names or instructions.

ART DIRECTION: create a memorable hierarchy, a major focal scene and a quieter counterweight; alternate large close forms with medium stories and a few small discoveries. Let tea life interact with the region. Connect selected objects through a real roofline, tabletop, lane, ridge or river contour; retain clear breathing channels so each gesture and vessel is legible. Do not impose any percentage of empty space. Avoid both a cramped rectangular carpet and timid isolated stickers. Use confident, intentional linework that will survive the 75 mm print height. Limit texture to useful material clues. Any water, snow, steam or clouds are sparse outlines with transparent interiors, never washed fills. No photographic gradients, glow, heavy grunge, blurred edges or tiny illegible hatch fields.

FACTUAL DISCIPLINE: the scenes below distinguish cultivation, processing, trade, hospitality and non-tea infusions. Do not turn imported tea, berries, ginseng, barley, trees or grasslands into tea plantations. Do not invent a local tea cultivar, a named historic tea shop, medical effects, a precise trade route or archaeological evidence. Landmarks are cultural/geographic motifs, not assertions that tea was grown or traded at their gates. A contemporary tea pause next to a landmark is an authored scene, not a documentary historical claim. Keep people natural and respectful, with plausible hands and gestures; use no decorative pseudo-script.


C1: TWO-INK COLLECTOR ATLAS. Follow the fine observational pen language of the Guangdong constellation reference, but replace dotted links with an interwoven tea panorama. Use one confident dark contour, selective short etched shading and the second ink as deliberate highlights. Give vessels, hands and roofs credible construction; elegant narrow serif typography. The pleasure comes from discovering real tea activities within a single composition, not from connecting floating specimens. No all-over scratch texture.

REGION: Shanxi. Exact ink palette: #3A3C49, #B28A39. The first colour supplies the main line; the others have deliberate separate roles, not gradients.

AUTHENTIC SUBJECT MATTER:
Shanxi is a merchant tea region. Center the drawing on a Qixian/Zhaoyu-style courtyard where a trader opens a wrapped tea bale, another uses a balance and scoop to assess imported leaves, and a seated merchant keeps an abacus beside a plain open ledger with no legible invented writing. A second, lower Pingyao-style guest table offers a small teapot and cups: commerce becomes hospitality. At the northern end, two Bactrian camels and a handler approach a modest Yanmen/Shahukou-type gate, expressing the documented northward trade corridor without printing dates or a precise total distance. The bales contain tea, not fictitious local leaves picked from mountains. A small, separate Lingchuan/Tunliu forsythia-leaf infusion appears as a slender flowering branch, leaf tray and glass; label it as herbal if labelled at all. Do not turn the map caption Shangdang Tea into terraces of Camellia. A few loess dwelling arches and a distant wooden pagoda establish the regional setting. No tea-pressing machinery or invented banknotes, no Shanxi/Shaanxi spelling confusion.

SPECIFIC COMPOSITION:
The largest scene is an open merchant courtyard at left-middle, viewed obliquely so a bale-opening hand, balance and leaf scoop can be read together. Its roofline continues toward a lower guest tea table on the right; an abacus and blank ledger sit in the near foreground. Behind the table a small northward camel pair moves toward a gate in a ridge notch. The little forsythia glass and branch form a separate quiet endpoint. Use charcoal ink to articulate wood, rope and the compressed leaf surface, ochre only for selected roof, tea and flower accents. Nest SHANXI above the inner courtyard opening in narrow serif capitals.

VISIBLE TYPE: exact main title "SHANXI" once. Use only these optional small English labels, integrated beside the appropriate scenes and large enough to read: QIXIAN, TEA TRADE, PINGYAO, NORTHWARD, HERBAL INFUSION. Do not add other text. No Chinese characters, bilingual captions, pseudo-calligraphy, gibberish, slogans, logos or signatures. Prioritize visual storytelling over words. Do not allow letters to merge with foliage or buildings. The design must feel like a collectible regional artwork that a tea professional would want to handle and study.
