Traditional Chinese villages are the largest integrated space of cultural heritage in China, and the spatial and temporal distribution of traditional villages and their cultures is an important base map of the spatial distribution of Chinese historical and contemporary culture. At present, most researches on Chinese traditional villages are case studies, and there is no general study on Chinese traditional villages and their cultural distribution. In this paper, geographic information System(GIS) technology is used to analyze the spatial distribution of Chinese traditional villages and their cultural space, the influencing factors and the spatial and temporal distribution of the construction history of Chinese traditional villages. Based on the large-scale collection and collation of spatial data and cultural heritage data of traditional villages, a large dataset with spatial characteristics as the core was constructed. Through a multi-dimensional comparative study of time, economy and heritage, the distribution characteristics of cultural space of traditional villages and their close relationship with the national traditional cultural pattern were revealed. The research results show that the continuity of historical information, economic factors and geographical factors are important factors that determine the spatial distribution of Chinese traditional village culture. Among them, economic factors and ethnic factors in geographical factors interact with each other, which have a complex impact on the distribution pattern of contemporary Chinese traditional villages and shape the distinctive "community" characteristics of Chinese traditional villages. In addition, Chinese traditional villages are closely related to the national material and intangible cultural heritage in space, which on the one hand reflects the aggregation and distribution of most of China's cultural heritage, and on the other hand also reflects that a large number of cultural heritages in traditional villages need to be excavated and protected, highlighting the important position of traditional villages in Chinese culture. Based on geographic information, this paper explores the spatial and temporal perspective of the cultural space of traditional Chinese villages, in order to provide important references for the overall appearance and integrity of traditional Chinese villages, as well as the excavation and protection of cultural heritage in traditional Chinese villages.

raditional villages , spatial distribution , cultural heritage , Geographic Information System , cultural inheritance