# Hebei — Tea between the wall and the lake

Hebei · HE_C4

Human scale of a tea cup against large structures.

## 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/HE_C4.png) · [exact TXT](/assets/prompts/HE_C4.txt) · [dossier in browser](/en/docs/designs/HE_C4.html) · [collection context](/en/docs/projects/C4.html).

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

## Review basis

The main title and toponyms are intact; the tea garden and table are large, the bridge/wall/palace are distinguishable. Clear hatching without dirty haze; the lion is treated as a conventional decorative sculpture without a caption of a specific monument.

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

#52463B

#478399

#AC783A

## 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: `f18f2dd5b4b03500c2cce3f931437d9cadf1a6fe7b0ceb7c4934be2681a29b77`.

```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.

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: HEBEI. EXACT PALETTE: #52463B, #478399, #AC783A. 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.

A close Lingshou tea basket and small picking scene are the left foreground hero. At right Chengde's tiered pavilion and open lake garden form a taller graceful counterweight, with two contemporary tea drinkers below. Between them an Anji-style open-spandrel stone bridge connects the scenic rhythm to a reduced Jinshanling watchtower and ridge. Farther right a small Shanhaiguan gate and Old Dragon Head silhouette meet a sparse Bohai coast. A compact Zhangjiakou merchant parcel and Cangzhou iron-lion silhouette give further regional discoveries without turning the print into an inventory board.

REGIONAL TRUTH: Hebei's map contains a real but limited northern tea-growing story at Lingshou, confirmed by Shijiazhuang municipal reporting; do not turn the entire province into tea plantations. Zhangjiakou, including the Dajingmen gateway context, belongs to the Great Tea Road trade story, moving tea supplied from other regions. Historic Tianjin tea merchants also opened branches in Baoding and Cangzhou, supporting merchant-counter scenes there. Chengde's palace-and-garden landscape is documented; a contemporary visitor sharing tea there is an artistic hospitality scene, not a claimed historical ceremony. The Great Wall, Taihang, Yanshan and Bohai coast identify the wider region. Yanmen Pass is in Shanxi and must not appear as Hebei.

SPECIFIC COMPOSITION: Use the curve of bridge, ridge and garden shore to join two human-scale tea anchors. The stone bridge has one broad main arch and small open shoulder arches, not a row of identical Roman arches. Tall serif HEBEI lies above the quiet lake opening; no filled lake or huge opaque mountain silhouette.

TEXT: Main title exactly "HEBEI". Secondary labels, each once and attached to its correct scene: Lingshou; Chengde; Jinshanling; Anji Bridge; Shanhaiguan. 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.
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