Cultural memory reflects a group’s emotional attachment, cultural identity, and the social and historical value of intergenerational heritage. Based on the theory of cultural memory, this study classified 783 cultural relics at national and provincial levels in Yuan River Basin of Hunan Province into 8 memory points, 2 memory representations, and 4 memory spaces by type and examined their spatial evolution and hierarchical differences using memory index, kernel density, and field energy model analyses. The results show that the basin’s tangib...
