Yunnan — Tea caravan road

Create an original collectible regional ceramic PRINTING DECAL, not a mug or mockup. The supplied image is a drawing/style benchmark only: replace every reference-region subject and word with the researched region described below. Make a confident, rewarding composition whose tea craft, architecture and landscape belong together.
OUTPUT: PNG RGBA, native 3840 x 1280 px. Keep every mark inside x=60..3780 and y=110..1170; use nearly the whole long strip. The final export is 3840 x 1152 px for 250 x 75 mm. Do not shrink the entire design to a central 16:9 picture. Preserve normal object proportions and complete edge objects.
ALPHA: genuine transparent exterior and natural transparent openings inside the drawing. No white or cream rectangle, paper texture, sky wash, sea fill, provincial silhouette, checkerboard, aura, gradient or drop shadow. Unpainted architecture, water and negative openings reveal alpha. Colour belongs to actual drawn objects, never a vague backdrop. Do not reproduce any opaque field visible in the reference.
For C1–C6, create ONE connected varied panorama with two or three unequal anchors, overlapping near/middle/far scales and smaller discoveries. Connect through real terrain, streets, roofs, branches and human actions, not dotted diagram routes. No two-row sticker sheet, isolated equal scenes, caption boxes, repetitive generic gardens or an empty band under the title. Do not impose a percentage of blank space. C7 instead follows its explicit irregular album direction below.
English lettering only, exact spelling, dark clear capitals for allowed captions. One main regional title. No Chinese characters, logos, invented seals, pseudo-writing, promotional superlatives or health claims. A short legible caption is preferable to microscopic text. Respect the stated distinctions between growing tea, processing it, trading it and serving it. A full research inventory need not become a printed gazetteer.

COLLECTION: A SWEEPING REGIONAL JOURNEY. Follow GD03: energetic angular pen contours, bold slanted region lettering, selective directional hatching and three clear inks. Compose a shallow diagonal or S-shaped journey carried by a real regional movement motif. Bold near craft and people interlock with farther landmarks and terrain. Clean graphic edges, never watercolour, fuzzy labels or sticker scenes.
REGION: YUNNAN.
PALETTE: #174E47, #BD597E, #7AA361. Preserve this regional colour family; first colour supplies the strongest contour/text. Extra dark/light rendering colours and full-colour watercolour are not wanted.
RESEARCHED CONTENT:
Yunnan shifts from snowy northwest to lush tea-bearing southwest. Preserve Jade Dragon peaks, the Jinsha/parallel-gorge idea, Lijiang timber roofs, Dali Bai-style architecture by Erhai, western Gaoligong terrain, a small old tea caravan, southern Dai roof and palm silhouettes, and eastern Hani wet-rice terraces. Rice terraces are not tea rows. The tea anchors are Jingmai forest tea beneath taller trees, Menghai stone pressing and sun-drying, Yiwu trading village, Fengqing Dianhong rolling, and a small Lincang picking path. Dali and Kunming are also tea circulation and serving places; northern yak/monastery travel motifs should remain geographically distinct from tropical tea. Use only a few observed architecture types rather than generic pagodas everywhere. Water stays open alpha, with separate river strokes rather than merging three parallel rivers into one channel. No dates or invented antiquity claims.
AUTHORED COMPOSITION:
Create a decisive shallow diagonal of tea-carrying movement. A near pack animal and carrier at left follow an angular path around a Dali roof, across an open river passage and toward the large Menghai press at right. Jingmai tree crowns curl over the inner arc, with a picker among smaller tea branches; Fengqing rolling and Yiwu roof steps mark two separate turns. Far northwest snow peaks remain small and detached in depth, not a single mountain towering directly over the southern press. Bold slanted YUNNAN aligns with the journey but stays intact. Three inks, assured angular contours and a few purposeful hatch marks give motion; no watercolour haze or dotted route diagram.
LETTERING PLAN:
YUNNAN once. At most six supporting captions: JINGMAI, MENGHAI, FENGQING, YIWU, DALI, LIJIANG.
REGIONAL SAFEGUARDS:
Jingmai is forest-understorey tea, not regimented clipped terraces. Fengqing Dianhong is black tea; Pu’er cakes do not replace every regional tea. Hani terraces grow rice, not tea. Snowy Shangri-La/Jade Dragon is travel context, not a tropical tea estate. Do not merge the three parallel rivers. No invented ethnic costume, giant ancient-age labels, brand wrappers or medical claims.
FINAL STANDARD: sharply drawn object edges, deliberate line hierarchy, vivid meaningful local differences and a recognisable whole place. Protect the main title and key silhouettes; never solve complexity by making everything equally tiny.