Abstract：competition is an external selection mechanism in cultural transmutation and innovation. Under the action of selection and competition, inheritance and variation are the two aspects of conflicts and reunification, which make up the two main paths of cultural evolution.
Based on the questionnaire survey, the space -time empirical comparison research shows that the regional culture ideas of Jiangsu has produced huge variations, and the new North-South differences are formed, which are different from the traditional cultural pattern. Research based on the substitute index of space-time comparison shows that the regional culture ideas of Jiangsu has had a great influence up to now through the powerful function of inheritance which is keeping so stability that North-South cultural patterns are consistent between the past and the present. From the discussion, it is clear that regional culture have some contradiction in its representation and root. The dualistic values pattern is the portrayal true to a co-existence and co-function of new and old values in cultural transformation. And these cultural sections and cultural level link by spanning time and space present the evolution process and internal situation of Jiangsu regional culture that is made up of inheritance, variation, competition and selection. With the use of reference for the theory and method from evolutionary economics and evolutionary economic geography, it can be seen that researching cultural transmutation from the angle of evolution is not only beneficial to deepening the theoretical study of the cultural change mechanism and the evolution process, but also beneficial to grasping the cultural reality and the practice of science in the cultural innovation. Yet, there are important differences between cultural evolution and biological evolution. Therefore, we should apply it scientifically and flexibly in the process of analysis on culture under the perspective of evolution.
孟召宜, 朱传耿, 黄泽虎, 刘燕. 基于演化视角的区域文化观念嬗变与创新研究——以江苏为例[J]. 人文地理, 2011, 26(3): 12-18.
MENG Zhao-yi, ZHU Chuan-geng, HUANG Ze-hu, LIU Yan. A STUDY ON THE TRANSMUTATION AND INNOVATION OF REGIONAL CULTURE IDEAS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF EVOLUTION——A Case Study Of Jiangsu Province. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2011, 26(3): 12-18.
