Spatial and Temporal Changes and Influence Mechanisms of Sports Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Yangtze River Delta Region

Abstract

In order to clarify the internal dynamics of the development of sports intangible cultural heritage in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region and help sports culture integrate into the national strategy of YRD integration and development, GIS spatial information technology, metrological geography and human geography analysis methods are used to explore the historical evolution law, spatial distribution characteristics and influencing factors of sports intangible cultural heritage in the YRD region. The results show that: 1) the number of sports intangible cultural heritage in the historical stage is unevenly distributed, the spatial scale shows a significant agglomerative distribution trend, and the evolutionary trajectory shows a pattern of inland extension; 2) the nuclear density of sports intangible cultural heritage shifts from two nuclei and one band to one nucleus and multiple bands, and the high-density zone in the Taihu Lake basin shifts to the coastal area headed by Shanghai; 3) sports intangible cultural heritage have a significant spatial dependence on a municipal scale, and the Socio-economics is the dominant factor influencing the heterogeneity of sports intangible cultural heritage while natural geography is the foundational factor, among which population size and river density have the most obvious influence on the spatial heterogeneity of sports intangible cultural heritage.