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Journal of Chinese
Architecture and Urbanism Spatial morphology of cohesive village

Cohesive village Radial village Comb-type village
Figure 6. Schematic diagrams of typical spatial forms of cohesive, radial, and comb-type villages. Source: Drawings by the author

Figure 7. Distribution map of Guangdong’s cohesive and radial core-type villages. Source: Map by the author

it seemed more appropriate to call it a “core.” In addition, name for the morphology of the local immigrant village
according to the research on the migration of Guangdong on the north shore of Chao Lake in the early Ming
immigrants and the date of village establishment, such radial dynasty) in the area of Zhongmiao Town and Huanglu
villages emerged much earlier, as early as the Sui (581–618) Town on the north shore of Chao Lake in Hefei in the
and Tang (618–907) dynasties (Table 3). similar period (Table 4), which are literally “nine lanes
and one pond,” featured by the pond as the center and the
This map shows that the “core” village, such as the Leizhou’s
cohesive village, should have been formed before the comb- dwellings connected to each other in the front and at the
back, with a vertical layout in ten columns, and nine lanes
type village, rather than evolving from the comb-type village.
built with open ditches for drainage and connected to the
5. Isomorphism with the “nine dragons dark ditches in the courtyard of the dwellings. The
toward a pearl” village residential dwellings drain into the pond through the
alleyway ditches. It is named after the nine lanes that
We found the same cohesive villages called “nine dragons drain like nine dragons playing with water during heavy
toward a pearl” (九龙攒珠, Jiulong Zanzhu is a special rains. Both villages are located in the natural environment

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