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...