音乐学界围绕木鱼歌的文化渊源等问题存在较大争论。岭南木鱼歌的称谓还有摸鱼歌、沐浴歌,其它均为误称;其音乐文化渊源是江浙宣卷传入岭南并与当地疍歌等民间歌曲融汇而成的一种民间曲艺;其唱腔不单单局限于清唱与苦喉,而是因地域不同、方言不同、习俗不同呈现不同的曲调特色;广东南音脱胎于木鱼歌,二者之间既有相同点又有较大的差异。 Music scholars focus on the cultural origins of wooden fish song and other issues there is a big debate. Lingnan wooden fish title also touches the fish song, bath songs, others are misnamed; its music and cultural origins of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Xuan volumes into the Lingnan and local songs and other folk songs come together as a folk art; its Singing is not limited to singing and biting throat, but different tunes due to different regions, different dialects and different customs. Guangdong Nannin is born of the same kind of wood fish song, but there are similarities and differences between the two.