复古云南茶马古道地图

Goal: Create a vintage Chinese illustrated travel map of {argument name="region title" default="Yunnan Tea Horse Road Map"}, showing an ancient caravan route through Yunnan as a hand-painted parchment atlas.

Canvas: Vertical 2:3 poster on aged tan rice paper with frayed texture, subtle stains, ink wash borders, and muted mineral pigments. The overall look should resemble an antique Qing-dynasty travel scroll mixed with a fantasy historical map.

Layout: Center the silhouette map of Yunnan as a large irregular province shape, divided into exactly 8 color-tinted regions with soft ink outlines. A winding beige caravan road enters from the lower left, snakes through the center, and exits near the upper middle, connecting all major stops. Around the province, add faint monochrome mountains, rivers, clouds, and empty parchment space.

Title and side text: On the right edge, place a large vertical black-brush Chinese title reading “云南茶马古道图”, with a smaller vertical English subtitle “YUNNAN TEA HORSE ROAD MAP” beside it. Add small vertical Chinese calligraphy notes on the upper left and lower right, plus two red square seal stamps near the title and notes.

Map regions: Include exactly 8 labeled regions, each with a large Chinese place name and a smaller descriptive sublabel: 1) northwest green region, “迪庆”, with Tibetan monasteries and two pagodas; 2) west blue region, “丽江”, with an ancient town, tiled roofs, and arched bridge; 3) central golden region, “大理”, with three white pagodas by a lake; 4) east orange region, “昆明”, with stone forest pinnacles and a gate; 5) southwest pale green region, “保山”, with a market town and bridge; 6) south-central earthy green region, “普洱”, with terraced tea mountains and tea transport crates; 7) southeast blue-green region, “玉溪”, with Fuxian Lake scenery; 8) far south dark green region, “西双版纳”, with tropical tea forest, elephant, and Dai-style buildings.

Route details: Show exactly 3 road styles in a small legend at lower left: main Tea Horse Road as a solid dark line, branch route as a dashed line, and main trading post as a red dot. Add a small compass rose labeled north, south, east, and west above the legend.

Caravan elements: Along the road, depict exactly 6 visible caravan groups: 1) a small group leaving the lower-left corner with people and pack animals; 2) a foreground group with two loaded horses and one handler near Pu’er; 3) a mid-route group with three loaded pack animals climbing toward Dali; 4) a group passing the Dali pagodas; 5) a group entering the Diqing mountain route; 6) a tiny distant group near the top road. Use brown horses and mules with stacked tea bundles and a few robed travelers.

Decorative elements: Add exactly 4 major botanical/animal decorations outside or near the map: 1) a leafy tea branch along the left side; 2) a tea plant cluster in the lower center; 3) tropical broad leaves and flowers at the lower right; 4) a blue-green peacock standing at the bottom right. Add one red seal block at the bottom left reading “茶马古道”.

Visual style: Fine black ink linework, watercolor wash, antique cartographic illustration, Chinese landscape painting, misty mountains, delicate river lines, traditional brush calligraphy, warm sepia parchment background, muted teal, ochre, jade green, blue, and rust colors. Keep the image richly detailed but harmonious and aged.

Constraints: Preserve the vertical poster composition, use readable hand-brushed Chinese labels, avoid modern roads, cars, buildings, icons, bright digital colors, photorealism, or clean vector graphics. No watermark.