《青楼梦》继承了古典文学中的蝴蝶意象传统并把它作为小说的中心意象,具有深厚的美学意蕴。它以“蝶恋花”“蝴蝶梦”寄寓了理想人生、人格美的追求和作者“浮生若梦”的悲凉意识,以“蝶化仙”为故事结局,加深了这一悲凉意识,并表达了“情之永恒”的灵魂自守。《青楼梦》有自己的独特之处。 The “Dream of the Blue Chamber” inherits the butterfly image tradition in classical literature and takes it as the central image of the novel, with a profound aesthetic implication. With “Butterfly Love” and “Butterfly Dream”, it embodies the ideal life, the pursuit of beauty of personality and the sense of desolation of the author, This sense of desolation, and expressed “Eternal love ” soul self-defense. “Brothel Dream” has its own unique place.