Chaotic conditions prevailed after the 1886 Tarawera eruption, when the loss of the Pink and White Terraces, New Zealand’s Eighth Wonder of the World, was rapidly declared. Four days after the eruption, surveyor Percy Smith approached about four kilometres from his supposed site of the White Terrace and mistakenly identified what he described as a “west-opening horseshoe bay” adjacent to a hill, concluding that the Terrace possibly lay within the newly formed crater. Pareidolia arises where ambiguous visual information intersects with cultural attachment and confirmation bias. This paper traces the subsequent life of Smith’s claims through six parliamentary, government, and academic reports; two official audits; five survey maps; six contemporary artworks; Smith’s later reminiscences; and a final interview. Forensic analysis of his survey maps shows that Smith altered the reported position of the White Terrace on two occasions and introduced topographic features during the period in which his work was being audited by sceptical government ministers. These early representations established an intellectual primacy that shaped official and academic understandings of the Terrace’s fate into the twenty-first century. Indigenous Māori observers disputed Smith’s conclusions at the time, but their testimony was disregarded under prevailing interracial conditions. This study extends the topography of the Rotomahana Basin through new altimetry, LiDAR mapping of the Kaiwaka Channel (also misidentified by Smith), reconstruction of his lost audit bearings, and derivation of an error ellipse for the White Terrace. The delineation of Smith’s maps by Harding introduced cartographic pareidolia and confirmation bias. Taken together, the evidence indicates that Smith’s successive claims for the White Terrace’s location in the crater lake were unsupported by direct observation or by reliable survey control. This paper argues that the principal source of long-standing misinterpretation at Tarawera lies not only in the field surveys themselves, but in the later delineation process. Here, cartographic pattern completion transformed uncertain observations into apparently objective geometries that then guided subsequent perception and belief into the current century.

This study investigates how digital transformation influences employee relations in Chinese A-share listed companies and whether corporate cultural fit strengthens this relationship. Drawing on survey data from 482 valid employee questionnaires, we operationalize digital transformation, employee relations, and cultural fit as mean-based composite indices and assess measurement quality through reliability (Cronbach’s α, CR) and validity tests (EFA, CFA, AVE, Fornell–Larcker). Hierarchical OLS regression results show that digital transformation is positively associated with employee relations (b = 0.58, p < 0.001). Cultural fit also has a significant positive effect (b = 0.59, p < 0.001) and moderates the main relationship: the interaction term is positive and significant (b = 0.21, p = 0.001), indicating that the effect of digital transformation on employee relations is stronger under high cultural fit. Simple slope analysis further confirms this pattern (high-fit β = 0.68 vs. low-fit β = 0.32). The findings highlight that digital transformation improves employee relations not only through technology adoption but also through culturally supported change processes, offering practical guidance for integrating digital initiatives with human-centered management.

Landscape painting is deeply influenced by traditional Chinese Taoism, and traditional culture gives it an inner spirit. The ancient saying: “Looking at a mountain is a mountain, looking at a mountain is not a mountain, looking at a mountain is still a mountain” reflects the ancient people’s deep thoughts about nature. Reveal the connection between the traditional body Tao and the aesthetic connotation of landscape painting, express the “Tao” of nature and the “Tao” of the painter’s creation through landscape painting, and summarise the relationship between the “body Tao” and landscape painting with physical experience. The relationship between “body Tao” and landscape painting is summarised by physical experience. Taking Guo Xi’s landscape paintings of the Northern Song Dynasty as an example, we analyse in depth the traditional Taoist theory of “the Way of the Body”, whose creative techniques and theories are recorded in “Linquan Gaozhi”, which originated from real landscape experiences and had a profound impact on ancient Chinese landscape paintings. By studying the idea of “Body Tao”, we can better understand and pass on the excellent traditional Chinese culture.

This paper summarizes the relationship between residential mobility and altruistic behavior. This paper expounds the present situation of the floating population in China and the world. The feasible path of providing psychological support to the floating population is pro_x005fposed, including the psychological support scheme closely following the characteristics of the floating population, the cultivation of targeted talents and the popularization of online psychological support methods, so as to promote the research on the floating population.