随着现代化文明的进程，各地域各民族被纳入到世界文化趋同的总体格局中，为了确保文化的丰富多样性，对地域民族文化的保护与研究逐渐深入，在神秘的湘西文化土壤中生长成型的湘西民间木雕，突显了独特的文化价值与美学意义。研究湘西民间木雕原生特性的创作理路、造型方式与寓意表述规律，使其在当代木雕艺术创作和非物质文化遗产的活化传承背景中，凸显湘西木雕的艺术价值。 在日益重视传统工艺文化的传承与发展中,本文以湘西传统民间木雕作为研究对象,以木雕中的艺术时空表现作为研究重点，总结时空营造的创作规律与方法，开辟传承路径。首先用文献研究法分析湘西民间木雕生成的文化土壤，梳理湘西文化中的时空观念，归纳湘西木雕的类型特征；其次通过馆藏木雕考察、古建筑木雕寻访、民间木雕手艺人访谈、民间美术文献图录的梳理,从设计学的角度结合叙述学、图像学等研究方法,探讨湘西民间木雕创作中的时空营造特点与时空营造方式；最后将时空营造的规律和方法转化运用在当代木雕的创作实践中，用经验总结法分析出时空营造方式的创新运用路径。 本文经过对湘西民间木雕艺术的相关研究，窥见了湘西民间木雕独特的艺术面貌，分析出了木雕艺术的时空建构、叙事表意、形态处理和赋彩着色等造型方法，总结出了木雕创作中的时空表现规律与时空营造方式。从时空营造的视角切入传统木雕艺术的创作理路研究,以期对活化传统民间艺术的传承与当代木雕艺术的创作有所助益。

With the process of modern civilization, the regional nationalities was incorporated into the overall pattern of world cultural convergence, in order to ensure the rich cultural diversity, the protection of regional national culture and research gradually further, grow in the mysterious Xiangxi culture soil forming of Xiangxi folk woodcarving, highlights the unique cultural value and aesthetic significance. To study the creation principle, modeling mode and implication expression rule of the original characteristics of folk wood carving of western Hunan, so as to highlight the artistic value of wood carving of western Hunan in the background of contemporary wood carving art creation and the activation and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage. In the process of increasing attention to the inheritance and development of traditional craft culture, this paper takes the traditional folk wood carving in western Hunan as the research object, takes the time and space expression of art in wood carving as the research focus, summarizes the creation rules and methods of time and space creation, and opens up the inheritance path. Firstly, analyze the cultural soil generated by the literature research method, sort out the concept of time and space in the Xiangxi culture, and summarize the type and characteristics of the collection of wood carvings, the description of folk art literature, and then analyze the way of time and space construction in the way of experience summary. Through the relevant research of the folk wood carving art in western Hunan, this paper shows the unique artistic appearance of the folk wood carving in western Hunan, analyzes the modeling methods of space-time construction, narrative expression, form treatment and color coloring of the wood carving art, and summarizes the law of time and space expression and the way of time and space in the creation of wood carving creation. From the perspective of time and space creation, the research on the creation of traditional wood carving art is helpful to activate the inheritance of traditional folk art and the creation of contemporary wood carving art.