Traditional villages are of high value in many aspects including history, culture,economy, tourism and science. It is extremely important to protect the spatial structure and cultural connotation of traditional villages. In this paper, six typical traditional villages in the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Xiangjiang River in China are taken as examples. Based on the theory of landscape genes, the landscape genetic analysis method is used to identify the landscape genes of traditional villages in the Xiangjiang River Basin, analyze the dominant material landscape genes and hidden genes ...