Abstract: Heqing Silverware in Yunnan is not only an exquisite handicraft but also a significant carrier of millennia-old cultural memory and ethnic wisdom. An in-depth analysis of the mechanisms of cultural transformation and the logic of genetic reconstruction of Heqing silverware in its historical evolution and modern transition is conducted by integrating multidisciplinary perspectives including political economy, cultural ecology, and gene coding theory. The findings reveal the patterns of selective inheritance and creative transformation under technological innovation, power dynamics, and capital involvement through deconstructing the value transformation process of silverware from material production to symbolic consumption. The cultural transformation of Heqing silverware is essentially a revaluation of cultural symbols and an adaptive reconstruction of a cultural ecosystem, with its genetic reconstruction process exhibiting the characteristic of “preserving core codes while innovating peripheral codes,” thus providing an interdisciplinary analytical framework and theoretical interpretation for understanding the modernization of traditional crafts.

Key words: Heqing silverware, cultural evolution, genetic reconstruction