Henan — Southern tea and northern memory

PRODUCTION CALIBRATION: use the supplied crisp print illustration as the leading standard for edge clarity, and use any cup photo only for its hand-drawn spirit. Create original local subjects; never reproduce the reference title or region. All strokes and letters must be sharp, complete, readable and deliberately drawn. No painterly blur, soft dirty halos, translucent smearing, duplicated words or pseudo-writing. Every complete object and letter stays 120 pixels inside each native edge. All unpainted exterior and interior openings must be genuine transparent alpha, not an opaque white canvas. Replace any weak fine detail with fewer clear graphic marks.

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: 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.

Draw nine unequal open-contour episodes: Xinyang picker and curved tea rows; a large Maojian shaping pan and hands; a drying tray with slender leaves; two guests sharing tea in a small courtyard; a Tongbai tea sprig and low hill; Shaolin temple eaves; a Longmen carved-rock niche; a Kaifeng arched bridge; a little Yellow River ferry and bank. Five tea moments remain dominant. Use the specified three inks on a few roof panels, leaves, garments and vessel accents only, leaving most interiors clear.

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: The single upper serif HENAN rests between the tall temple and tea sprig. Make the shaping pan notably larger than the ferry and link only neighbouring close pairs. Irregular open glaze separates the rest. No chessboard placement, continuous mountain fill, pictogram medallions or extra lettering.

TEXT: Only one word, "HENAN". 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.