Traditional villages are gathering places for intangible cultural heritage. To clarify the actual relationship and formation mechanism of the spatial distribution of traditional villages and intangible cultural heritage (referred to as "ICH") within the Xiangjiang River Basin of Hunan Province, a total of 399 national and provincial intangible cultural heritages and 291 traditional Chinese villages in the Xiangjiang River Basin were studied. Various methods, including kernel density analysis, the spatial centre of gravity model, the spatial dislocation index, and geographic detection, have bee...