自“诗骚”之后,花卉意象便作为中国文学、尤其是传统诗词中感兴寄寓的情感载体,而越来越具有厚重的文化意味。勾连“意象”与“意味”的形式,就是“象征”。随着文体的演进,当原本只在诗体中出现的花卉意象辐射到了戏曲、小说等叙事文学中并与人物形象的塑造相结合时,其象喻的范围和意蕴都得到空前的发展。《红楼梦》便最大限度地发掘了诸多花卉的文化内涵,这也使《红楼梦》成为讨论花卉意蕴的最好范本。文章拟以海棠、红梅两种花卉为例,来探讨《红楼梦》中花卉意蕴的文化沉淀与超越。 Since the poem “Shi Sao”, the image of flowers has become more and more heavy cultural meanings as Chinese literature, especially in traditional poems. Gouxian “image ” and “meaning ” form, is “symbol ”. With the evolution of stylistics, the scope and meaning of the figurative image have been unprecedentedly developed when the flower images that originally appeared only in the poetic body were radiated into the narrative literature such as operas and novels and were combined with the portrayal of characters. “Dream of Red Mansions” to maximize the cultural connotation of many flowers, which also makes “Dream of Red Mansions” to be the best model to discuss the meaning of flowers. The article intends to Begonia, plum two flowers, for example, to explore the “Dream of Red Mansions” in the cultural implication of cultural precipitation and beyond.