The plant images in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio are mainly reflected in various flower images. The author chooses four flower images: peony image (Jin Ge), chrysanthemum image (Huang Ying), cold-resistant image (Yu Xiang) and lotus image (Lotus Sannianzi). Taking flowers as the aesthetic object and personifying them can be found in China's ancient poems. For example, Bai Juyi's poem "Newly Planted Roses" sings the rose: "Shaofuchun has no wife and loneliness, and flowers will be wives." From poetry to novels, the narrative images of these flowers, on the one hand, have the connotation formed by the long-term accumulation of Chinese cultural traditions, such as graceful peony, noble chrysanthemum, perseverance in winter, and lotus flowers that are stained with mud. On the other hand, the meanings of these flower images are enriched or deformed in specific novel texts, resulting in poetic or new meanings.

The flower essence series novels of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio have created colorful flower essence images with both form and spirit. As a kind of narrative literature, novels can also create artistic conception similar to lyric works, which is born out of the image. According to the characteristics of flowers and the traditional cultural character of flower images, the author Pu Songling summarized the vivid and rich artistic conception of the novel. With the help of the ideographic form of magical realm, the artistic realm of virtual reality is created; Starting from the unique narrative characteristics of the novel, starting from the vivid description of the real situation, the reality is empty, creating a narrative artistic conception with graceful expression and long rhyme.