Henan — Tea and the memory of stone

FINAL PRINT DISCIPLINE: Draw sharp original graphic strokes with clean antialiasing, no blur, soft halos, watery texture, fake shadow or doubled outlines. The full scene has authentic transparent exterior and transparent open interiors, never a white or beige backing. Every complete subject and word is kept 120 pixels inside all native borders. Match only the supplied example drawing language, not its region. All content must belong to the requested region.

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 C4 — GARDEN COLLECTOR ATLAS.
Three-ink intimate collector drawing of tea, regional nature and architecture. Elegant hand contour with meaningful timber, foliage and stone details. Two hero scenes of unequal size are joined by a curved local scenic backbone, with smaller discoveries along it. Tall elegant serif regional title rests between roof or ridge silhouettes. This is a coherent cultural landscape with air through it, not a dense antiquarian engraving, souvenir icon grid, or flat stock travel poster.

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.

At left a large Xinyang tea-plucking scene opens into a bamboo work veranda with a shaped-leaf tray. At right a reduced Longmen rock-carving alcove provides the sculptural counterweight. Between them a Mount Song ridge and a compact Shaolin roofline rise behind an open courtyard tea table. A modest Kaifeng bridge and one Yellow River bank contour sit far back; southern Dabie tea rows remain visually separated from the northern cultural places. An elegant flowering branch accents the garden without competing with the tea plant.

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 curved cultural ridge connects tea veranda, monastery roof and rock alcove as an interpretive travel collage. Avoid depicting fields on the carvings. Tall serif title occupies the saddle between high stone and foliage. Fine meaningful rock cuts contrast with smooth porcelain and the thin needle leaves.

TEXT: Main title exactly "HENAN". Secondary labels, each once and attached to its correct scene: Xinyang; Dabie Mountains; Mount Song; Longmen; 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.