Traditional Chinese Gongbi Portrait Painting

Create a vertical Chinese traditional meticulous heavy-color beauty painting, with an image ratio of 4:5.
Subject is a young {argument name="subject" default="Han beauty"}, full-body, standing two-thirds sideways in {argument name="background environment" default="a serene classical garden curved corridor"}; posture is dignified and slender, slightly bowing head, right hand lightly holding {argument name="prop" default="a branch of budding crabapple"}, left hand modestly concealed within long sleeves, expression serene, gentle, and restrained. Faint long eyebrows, small straight nose, and vermilion cherry lips, with skin tone expressed in the traditional beauty painting style of fair and rosy. Black long hair styled in an elegant ancient Chinese hair bun, adorned with gilt flower hairpins, pearl step-shake, and emerald jade hairpins; each accessory has clear structure, intricate patterns, luxurious but not cluttered.
Beauty wears layered Hanfu: stone-blue cross-collar upper jacket, ochre-red high-waisted long skirt, ivory white cape; collar edges, cuffs, and skirt borders densely decorated with intertwining lotus, cut-branch flower-and-bird, and ruyi cloud patterns, outlined with fine gold thread. Silk folds are smooth, brocade patterns are complex and clear, with clothing belts and cape forming a soothing S-shape rhythm. Background includes Taihu rocks, verdant banana trees, blooming peonies, scattered petals, vermilion-painted railings, and distant hazy moon-gate doors, using well-spaced garden elements to complement the subject without overpowering.
Adopt orthodox Chinese meticulous heavy-color technique: with fine, uniform, and elastic iron-wire and gossamer-line drawing to precisely outline faces, hair, fingers, clothing folds, flowers, leaves, and accessories; multiple layers of dyeing, covering, flat painting, and re-outlining, with color layers thick yet clear. Mainly using stone-blue, stone-green, cinnabar, ochre, carmine, shell powder, and gold powder, with a little localized gold-leaf application; cyan-green, vermilion, ivory white, and soft gold balanced, colors elegant, tranquil, luxurious, saturated but not garish.熟绢 base color warm and slightly aged, preserving fine silk texture and hand-painted traces. Soft, even diffuse light, weak light-dark shaping, clear outlines, maintaining traditional painting's flatness, decorative nature, and subtle spatial sense.
Composition like a complete ancient vertical-scroll beauty painting, subject occupying about two-thirds of the image height, clear visual center, restrained white space, with subject, flowers/trees, and architecture forming elegant correspondence. Requirements: facial features, hands, and fingers natural and complete, clothing layers clear, line drawing precise and stable, tiny patterns still recognizable.
Overall must present authentic hand-painted meticulous heavy-color and classical silk texture; not photographic realism, not modern fashion, not anime faces, not thick oil painting, not watercolor wash, not 3D or plastic texture, not strong cinematic light, not exaggerated depth of field, no text, inscriptions, watermarks, or recognizable seals.

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