Abstract: Traditional villages carry people's memory and homesickness, as well as hundreds of thousands of historical stories. Studying the narrative of village space is for better memory. Taking Zhangdian village, Jia county, Henan province as an example,the main narrative elements of its place space was explored, the path of its events and space was analyzed, the space syntax theory and depth map software Depthmap were used to quantitative analysis the narrative space, and some corresponding suggestions for the protection of the traditional villages were puts forward.

Key words: spatial syntax, narrative space, traditional villages, Zhangdian village