Prompt
A 10-second historical documentary animation narrated in the style of Vox. The background is a yellowed parchment world trade map, featuring latitude and longitude grids, old trade routes, port stamps, paper creases, and pale brown water stains.
An ancient tea picker carrying a bamboo tea basket starts from a paper-cut illustration of the tea mountains in southern China and glides briskly along a green trade route. Each time the character passes a location, they scatter several tea leaves into the air. The leaves spin and transform into tea cakes, tea chests, ceramic teacups, and nautical cargo icons.
The route passes through mountain paths, post stations, ports, and sailing ships. Retro paper-cut stickers of caravan traders, teahouses, sailors, and overseas merchants pop up in sequence on both sides of the frame. The character finally arrives at an old-fashioned European tearoom, pours the tea into a teapot, and shares tea with the locals.
At the end, steam rises and forms a map curve connecting East and West. Smooth motion graphics, a paper collage style, and a palette of tea green, ochre, umber, and cream white create a warm, restrained feeling of historical exchange and transmission.