# Beijing — Capital tea in outlines

Beijing · BJ_C7

Ten major episodes of the city and tea culture.

## 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/BJ_C7.png) · [exact TXT](/assets/prompts/BJ_C7.txt) · [browser dossier](/en/docs/designs/BJ_C7.html) · [collection context](/en/docs/projects/C7.html).

[C7: drawing method and style references](/en/docs/C7_METHOD_RU.md).

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

## Factual basis and choice of subjects

Ten major episodes of the city and tea culture.

## Title and drawing language

The assignment provides for only one word — BEIJING, in large Latin serif letters. Small toponyms, Chinese text, numbers, and third-party logos are excluded. This is a description of the assignment; actual legibility is assessed separately.

## Drawing method and style references

Photographs of real tourist mugs with city scenes of Guangzhou, Macau, Hong Kong and Zhuhai were studied. From them, observed drawing features were taken: medium lively hand outline, simple recognizable silhouettes, selective flat color accents and a large title in the upper band. The specific set of viewed angles varied by region.

Local scenes vary in scale, shape, and height. Their juxtaposition creates an overall rhythm; a continuous panorama, a shared horizon, a grid of identical modules, and a fixed percentage of empty space are not imposed. Transparency is preserved between and within outlines.

The ceramic surface, highlights, hands, and the object background of the photographs are not part of the new drawing. Reference images and personal source photos are not published here. The three colors of each region are the author's palette, not a measured paint standard of the photographed cup.

## Review basis

BEIJING reads completely; trade, two tea scenes, a jasmine jar and cultural motifs are executed in a clear simple outline. The only title without pseudo-script, no blurred painterly haze.

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

#702A2D

#C58B36

#587D79

## 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: `23b330f9b64002450938b036475ddf449a6052b09ac178efc32b26eacf83eedc`.

```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.

COLLECTION C7 — REFERENCE CUP CONTOUR.
Follow the actual souvenir-cup drawing language closely: medium-weight lively hand contour, simple recognisable silhouettes, soft three-ink palette, sparse flat accents and a few short expressive strokes. No fine engraving, crosshatching carpet, watercolour, gradients, tonal rendering or solid panorama. Arrange 8 to 10 unequal local episodes in a lively interlocking rhythm; a few form close pairs and others breathe through generous irregular clear glaze. This is NOT an evenly spaced icon grid or two perfectly aligned rows. One large elegant serif title in the upper band. Its simple confident charm must be apparent at mug scale.

REGION: BEIJING. EXACT PALETTE: #702A2D, #C58B36, #587D79. 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.

Draw ten open medium-contour episodes: a Qianmen tea merchant and scale; a Maliandao tasting counter with two people; a large jasmine sprig paired with an open tea tin; hutong neighbours and kettle; a small performer beside two tea-drinking guests; Temple of Heaven; Forbidden City roof and gate; Summer Palace arched bridge; Mutianyu watchtower and short wall; bicycle beside a courtyard doorway. Half the content is tea trade and hospitality. No plantations, signs, Chinese characters or logos.

REGIONAL TRUTH: Beijing is a tea-consumption, merchant and teahouse city rather than a plantation region. Maliandao is an established tea-trade district. Jasmine tea is central to its everyday tea identity, with long-established tea merchants around Qianmen/Dashilan and other city districts. Its tea and scenting flowers are supplied from southern producing regions; do not portray tea or jasmine plantations in Beijing. Lao She Teahouse links tea to performance, and Laijin Yuxuan is a documented historic park teahouse. Hutong tea tables are an interpretive everyday scene, not a claim that a particular fictional shop exists. Never stage tea growing on the Great Wall or identify Jinshanling as inside Beijing.

SPECIFIC COMPOSITION: Only a large upper serif BEIJING is written. The round temple and jasmine sprig rise higher than the wide low tea table; merchant and doorway form a close pair. Leave irregular clear glaze between several scenes, with sparse three-colour accents and no dense continuous city panorama.

TEXT: Only one word, "BEIJING". No other letters, numbers, captions or language anywhere.

Keep the entire title and every object inside the safe field. Use only the specified three inks with clean alpha-zero glaze around and within open forms. No white backing, opaque sky, wash, shadows, writing, border or cut-off object. Finish as a confident simple collector-cup illustration, not a presentation sheet.
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