文化发生学视阈下鱼台县省级非遗木版年画的符号构建研究

Research on the Symbol Construction of Yutai County’s Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Woodblock New Year Paintings from the Perspective of Cultural Genetics

摘要: 目的：文化发生学视阈下，鱼台木版年画的符号构建是地理环境、历史传统与社会变革共同作用的结果。本文以山东省济宁市鱼台县木版年画这一省级非物质文化遗产为研究对象，系统梳理其自唐朝至当代的符号演变脉络，重点分析不同历史时期题材、技艺与传播载体所形成的符号系统。实地考察发现，鱼台木版年画通过吉祥图案的语义编码、历史典故的视觉转译、技艺传统的代际延续，构建了兼具地域特色与文化共性的符号体系。这一过程既体现鲁西南农耕文明的基因延续，也揭示了民间艺术在社会变迁中从“民俗工具”到“文化标识”的符号转型逻辑。

Abstract: From the perspective of cultural genetics, the symbol construction of Yutai woodblock New Year paintings is the result of the interaction between geographical environment, historical traditions, and social changes. This paper takes the woodblock New Year paintings of Yutai County, Jining City, Shandong Province—a provincial intangible cultural heritage—as the research object, systematically sorts out the evolution of its symbols from the Tang Dynasty to the present, and focuses on analyzing the symbol systems formed by themes, techniques, and communication carriers in different historical periods. Field investigations show that Yutai woodblock New Year paintings have constructed a symbol system with both regional characteristics and cultural commonality through the semantic coding of auspicious patterns, the visual translation of historical allusions, and the intergenerational inheritance of technical traditions. This process not only reflects the genetic continuity of agricultural civilization in southwestern Shandong but also reveals the logic of folk art’s symbol transformation from “folk tool” to ”cultural symbol” in social changes, providing a theoretical reference for the living inheritance of intangible cultural heritage.