本文以中国清代作家曹雪芹所著的长篇小说《红楼梦》与日本平安时代晚期作家紫式部的物语小说《源氏物语》作为参照蓝本,阐述了中日两国的尚悲文学传统在两部作品中的具体表现,并通过作品中人物被礼仪道德和社会的价值取向所束缚之下的悲剧命运,进一步探索两部作品所包涵的悲剧美。 Taking the novel “Dream of Red Mansions” written by Cao Xueqin, a writer in Qing Dynasty of China, and the tales of the Tale of Genji, the storyteller of the late Qing Dynasty in Japan, as reference books, this essay elaborates the tragic literature tradition of China and Japan in two works And further explores the tragedy beauty covered by the two works through the tragic destiny bound by the moral values ​​of the etiquette and the values ​​of society.