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Journal of Chinese
Architecture and Urbanism Spatial morphology of cohesive village

Peninsula . The same spatial forms of villages were found Acknowledgments
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in the corresponding emigration areas of Jiangxi as in the
cohesive villages and the “nine dragons toward a pearl” None.
villages (Figure 8). The above is enough to infer that the Funding
influence of Jiangxi traditional residential culture on the
cohesive villages is greater than that of Fujian’s Putian This study was supported by the China Postdoctoral Science
culture. Foundation (The order of isomorphism: Regional theories
and models of the evolution of traditional residential
6. Discussion and conclusion morphological differentiation; Project No.: 2019M652897),
and the State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building
In conventional understanding, we would assume that the Science Open Subjects (The construction of a blockchain-
spatial form of a particular village in a region evolves from based model for the study of the cultural geography of
the common practices of the village. However, it is found traditional dwelling; Project No.: 2019ZB13).
that special village’s spatial forms may precede the formation
of common villages. We, generally, believe that the spatial Conflict of interest
form of a village in the regions is generally influenced by the
residential culture of the main immigrant places. However, The author declares no competing interests.
the study found that the major immigrant cultures may have
assimilated the early ones and that some characteristics of Author contributions
the early cultures were retained during their adaptations to This is a single-authored paper.
the new natural and social environments (Ngwato, 2012).
Ethics approval and consent to participate
The research establishes a connection between two
or more spatial forms through “isomorphism,” and the Not applicable.
numerous connections form a “network” that can fill the
knowledge gap of residential culture due to the loss of built Consent for publication
environment or the lack of historical records. Although Not applicable.
this exploration of the origin of Leizhou’s cohesive villages
tends to be more inferential, we can be sure that the cohesive Availability of data
villages did not exist in isolation, and that the isomorphic Data will be made available from the corresponding author
spatial form is an ancient planning model adapted to the on reasonable request.
arid environment and also suitable for production and
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