In the conservation and development of traditional villages, it is vital to delineate reasonable village boundaries. At present, China’s traditional village boundaries are mainly defined through the boundaries of village construction land in its land policy. This approach ignores the "natural" state of traditional village boundaries and does not truly reflect villagers’ use of their villages. Using the constituent line segments of traditional village boundaries as parameters, we delineate a series of traditional village boundaries and constructed an assessment system for traditional village boundaries in terms of the convenience of villagers’ activities and their habitual use of village space. We used the delineation of the boundary of Haishangqiao village in the Yiluo River Basin in China as an example to test the effectiveness of the traditional village boundary delineation method and assessment system. The results show the following: (1) The virtual line segments connecting the buildings on the traditional village boundary are the main factors affecting the delineation of the traditional village boundary. (2) The amplitude of vibration and the global deviation of traditional village boundaries are the main influencing factors of complexity. (3) The complexity of traditional village boundaries is negatively correlated with the convenience of villagers’ activities. (4) The complexity of traditional village boundaries is negatively correlated with the emptiness of the internal space of traditional villages. The results of this study can provide practical reference values for scholars of rural planning, rural construction, rural conservation, rural management, and rural research.

Over the past two decades, developing countries have experienced rapid urbanization. It has been accompanied by unusually sharp conflicts between urban and rural areas, posing significant challenges to social stability. China, as the largest developing country, has completed the planning of all its villages during this period. It can provide experience and lessons for other developing countries in rural planning. Based on the CSSCI database, this paper analyzes 643 papers on rural planning in China using bibliometric methods. The results showed that rural transformation and development, rural spatial characteristics and optimization, and rural planning techniques and methods are the three main research topics. China’s rural planning research has gone through three stages: 1998-2004, 2005-2012, and 2013-2020. “Rural revitalization,” “village planning,” “new rural construction,” “rural tourism,” “urbanization,” “urban-rural integration,” and “planning” are the frontiers of rural planning research. Research institutions and authors are mainly from universities and cooperate more closely with themselves. Geography and sociology are the disciplinary foundations of rural planning in China. The results provide objective insights into the historical evolution and development direction for planning.

Village planning has assigned a single fixed boundary to the village to protect the external spatial form type of the village from destruction. To meet its development needs, the village needs to change the fixed boundary. How to delineate a boundary that does not destroy the external spatial form type of the village but also meets the development needs of the village has become an urgent problem to be solved. This paper proposes a strategy to delineate flexible boundaries for villages. This strategy accomplishes the delineation of flexible boundaries without destroying the spatial form type of the village by adjusting the control parameters to meet the needs of village development for boundaries. Firstly, the strategy calculates the value of the optimal village boundary corresponding to the control parameter, then constructs the mathematical and theoretical relationship between the village’s external spatial form type and the optimal boundary corresponding to the parameter, and finally determines the range of spatial form type corresponding to the control parameter and selects 20 traditional villages in China as empirical evidence. The results show that: the length of control parameters corresponding to the external spatial form types of villages shows the law of segmental distribution; the higher the degree of banding of the external spatial form of villages, the greater the length of control parameters; the range of control parameters for clustered boundary delineation of the village, and the banding tendency of the clustered and banding spatial form types is 15-30, 30-50, and 50-130. The results can provide theoretical references for the planning and design of villages, as well as provide decision-making help for the village participants.

As core architectural environments for cultural heritage preservation and public education, museums are evolving from static exhibition spaces into immersive, multisensory interactive environments. The sensory attributes of the architectural environment—including multimodal information such as light, sound, and touch—exhibit a dynamic coupling with visitors’ emotional states. Responding to visitors’ growing emphasis on emotional enhancement, this study aims to improve the emotional experience of museum tours through multisensory compensation strategies. First, we conducted an experiment at the Shaanxi Archaeology Museum, capturing facial videos of participants during their tours and utilizing a facial expression analysis system for continuous emotion recognition. Subsequently, drawing on theories of multisensory interaction and emotion regulation, we constructed a multisensory emotion regulation model to guide the sensory compensation experiment. Visualization analysis of the results confirmed that multisensory compensation strategies within the architectural environment significantly increased positive emotions (from 48.23% to 60.78%). This study focuses on the mechanisms by which sensory compensation strategies in the architectural environment influence visitors’ emotional experiences, aiming to promote the transformation of cultural heritage spaces from “function-oriented” to “emotion-oriented” environments.