Traditional villages are cultural landscape carriers formed by the long-term integration of regional natural environments and historical-cultural systems. Landscape genes are the core units for analyzing village characteristics and inheriting regional cultures. Taking Shuangmiao Village in the Yuntai Mountain Global Geopark, Jiaozuo City, Henan Province as the research object, this study, based on the landscape gene theory, systematically identifies and extracts its landscape genes from four dimensions (environmental characteristics, layout characteristics, architectural characteristics, and cultural characteristics) in accordance with four recognition principles, namely intrinsic uniqueness, extrinsic uniqueness, local uniqueness, and overall dominance. A dominant-recessive dual-structural landscape gene atlas is constructed herein. The results show that the landscape genes of Shuangmiao Village are characterized by the geological foundation of the Yuntai landform, the stepped settlement layout in mountainous areas, the all-stone residential building system, the culture of the civil and military imperial examinations, and the folk culture of temple fairs, which integrate the uniqueness of natural geology, regional construction techniques, and the scarcity of historical and cultural resources. Traditional villages in geoparks exhibit a high coupling of natural and cultural genes as well as a symbiosis of material and non-material genes. The research results can provide theoretical support and practical references for the style protection, living cultural inheritance, and sustainable development of rural tourism in traditional villages within geoparks.

Cao Yue, Zhi Xiaoxiao. Identification and Extraction of Landscape Genes in Traditional Villages in Yuntai Mountain Global Geopark—A Case Study of Shuangmiao Village. Academic Journal of Environment & Earth Science (2026), Vol. 8, Issue 1: 68-76. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJEE.2026.080110.

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