从 “民族符号” 到 “情感枢纽”：延边州明太鱼文化地方性感知演化变迁研究 = From “Ethnic Symbol” to “Emotional Nexus”: A Study on the Evolution and Change of Perception of Placeness of myeongtae (Alaska pollock) Culture in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

To explore the characteristics and influencing mechanisms of tourists' perception of dietary localness across different stages of tourism commercialization, this study selects the myeongtae (Alaska pollock) culture in the eight counties/cities of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture as a case study. Based on questionnaire survey data regarding tourists' localness perception of myeongtae culture, principal component analysis was employed to quantify the levels of Perception of Placeness in the eight study areas. Tourism commercialization gradients were classified into three categories using indicators derived from the survey. The optimal geographical detector model was applied to conduct factor detection and interaction detection from three dimensions—physical landscape, ethnic significance, and emotional perception—thereby systematically revealing the dominant influencing factors and evolutionary characteristics of dietary placeness perception at different stages of tourism commercialization.
The results show that: (1) Significant differences exist in dietary perception of placeness across the initial germination, initial operation, and growth–evolution stages of tourism commercialization, with counties/cities in the growth–evolution stage exhibiting the highest intensity of perception of placeness ; (2) As tourism commercialization progresses from the initial germination stage to the growth–evolution stage, tourists' perception of myeongtae cultural localness demonstrates a continuous strengthening trend; (3) The dominant influencing dimensions of dietary perception of placeness vary across commercialization stages: emotional perception shows the strongest explanatory power in the growth–evolution and initial operation stages, while perception of physical landscape is most influential in the initial germination stage; (4) Interaction detection reveals that, except for the two-factor enhancement between physical landscape and ethnic significance in the growth–evolution stage, all other pairwise interactions among the three dimensions exhibit nonlinear enhancement. Notably, the interaction between physical landscape perception and emotional perception exerts the most significant combined effect on dietary localness perception.
The findings of this study provide theoretical support and practical references for the inheritance of ethnic culture and the sustainable development of the tourism industry in Yanbian Prefecture, facilitating the deep transformation of ethnic dietary culture from a cultural symbol into an emotional carrier.