The Relationship between Shanxi Merchants and Spatial Structure in Yuncheng Ancient City, China
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Abstract
Against the backdrop of growing international emphasis on the sustainable development of cultural heritage, case studies of historic cities offer valuable insights for the preservation and utilization of cities with diverse cultural and natural contexts. This study focuses on Yuncheng Ancient City in Shanxi Province, utilizing historical literature review and field investigation data to examine its spatial structure across different periods. The analysis includes an exploration of the city’s locational factors, changes in its buildings, roads, and their interrelationships before and after the emergence of the Shanxi merchants, as well as the underlying causes of these changes. The findings reveal that Yuncheng was constructed primarily for the administration of salt production, with its spatial structure evolving to support this purpose. Although government policies facilitated the entry of the Shanxi merchants into Yuncheng, their influence on the city’s development was minimal. Instead, the establishment of public facilities significantly enhanced the welfare of local residents. These findings clarified that in Yuncheng, the Shanxi merchants represented a temporary socio-economic phenomenon aligned with governmental policies, while the city itself was fundamentally shaped by government-led salt production and administration.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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