# Sichuan — facts, map and seven compositions

Research date: 2026-10-04. Map viewed visually. Prompts prepared; images are not declared completed or approved by this document.

## Inventory of the source map

Map: Hengduan Mountains, Qionglai Mountains, Mount Mengding, Mount Emei/Emeishan, Daba Mountains; Chengdu, Ya’an, Leshan, Yibin, Zigong, Deyang, Mianyang, Nanchong; Min, Tuo, Jialing and Yangtze. Drawings: snowy west, caravan with loads and a suspension bridge, gardens of Mengding/Ya’an/Emei and pickers, temples with curved roofs, seated Buddha in the Leshan area, panda in bamboo, boat in the eastern gorge. We do not call the eastern gorge the Three Gorges: the map does not prove this, and a significant part of the famous complex is outside today's Sichuan.

## Tea territories and fact separation

Key clusters: Mengding/Mingshan Ganlu and Huangya; Ya’an dark Zang Cha; Emei/Leshan green tea; Yibin early harvests and Chuanhong; Naxi/Luzhou early tea; Qianwei jasmine scenting; Pujiang Queshe; northern Micang/Wangcang, Qingchuan and Wanyuan/Bashan. Chengdu — a culture of serving and trade, not a tea plantation in the city center. Ganlu is green, Huangya is yellow, Zang Cha is dark fermented, Chuanhong is black, jasmine tea is true tea scented with flowers, not a pure herbal infusion. The name Bamboo Leaf does not mean brewing bamboo; Queshe is not illustrated with bird tongues. The map does not prove the exact name of every temple.

## tea.travel and primary sources

- [tea.travel Sichuan](https://tea.travel/en/region/sichuan/) — read Mengding/Ya’an, Ganlu, Huangya, Zang Cha, Emei; loud historical/absolute formulas not carried over.
- [Sichuan government: tea industry program](https://www.sc.gov.cn/10462/11555/11563/2023/2/13/2954c1d4d29e4411a31a353d05f317ef.shtml) — Mengding, Emei, Micang, Yibin, and Chuanhong.
- [Sichuan government: Ya’an](https://www.sc.gov.cn/10462/10464/10465/10595/2024/4/7/c994859579f64041be1b567ec2506763.shtml).
- [Naxi early tea](https://www.sc.gov.cn/10462/10464/11716/11718/2015/5/27/10337285.shtml).
- [Pujiang Queshe](https://www.sc.gov.cn/10462/c111831urddnburvutnrpvundskqfrftmkggtvhmc/2024/9/5/b66040bd982347f8911d14a182abb16d.shtml).
- [Leshan government: Qianwei jasmine](https://www.leshan.gov.cn/syx/swglj/bmdt/d83e9d3ba0a8473390ce2265402f23c7.html).
- [SAMR: Qianwei jasmine-tea standard](https://std.samr.gov.cn/db/search/stdDBDetailedCNF?id=D7B64E13564C93BCE05397BE0A0A2EB8).
- [Guangyuan government: Micang](https://jjhzj.cngy.gov.cn/mshow/20240308163059535.html).
- [Sichuan official product list: Qingchuan/Bashan](https://www.sc.gov.cn/10462/uploadfiles/202007011958368716.pdf).

## Seven independent solutions

- **C1: Basket and tea brick.** A large basket of tender leaf meets the craft of pressing dark tea.
- **C2: Tea hands hold the word.** The word SICHUAN unites different technologies and the tea table in Chengdu.
- **C3: Basin, mountains and craft.** Tea slopes encircle the low urban tea house, different districts remain recognizable.
- **C4: Tea house at the start of a mountain road.** The city tea house and the suspension bridge become two different scale centers.
- **C5: Gaiwan and the great river sail.** A friendly parade of tea work, bamboo and Sichuan architecture.
- **C6: The caravan leaves the tea courtyard.** A bold diagonal brings tea production and movement through the mountains into one story.
- **C7: Ten Sichuan Things.** A large gaiwan, a tea brick and recognizable tourist details in a simple line.

## Technical and editorial boundaries

C1 uses the first two colors of the regional palette, C2–C3 all five, C4–C7 the first three. The background is truly transparent; there is no mandatory empty space percentage. C1–C6 is a coherent composition, C7 is 8–10 large simple groups. Only English text; C7 is only the region name. Master 3840 × 1280 px; final PNG RGBA 3840 × 1152 px, 250 × 75 mm.

The maps are an artistic source, not a geodetic plan. Symbolic proximity of scenes does not mean they are located on the same plot. The number of places explored is wider than the number of captions; the execution and quality of individual scenes are checked on the finished image. The prompt itself does not confirm the completeness of the result.