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According to Peirce, the founder of American semiotics, signs can be divided into three categories: icon, index and symbol. Symbol is built up on the basis of social customs and traditions so that it can not be inferred or deduced directly. Language is a kind of typical symbol which has no indispensable relationship with the object it represents or suggests. This kind of relationship is arbitrary and occasional instead of being inevitable. Different nationalities may have different customs and traditions so that they may develop different language sign systems. People can use some symbols to express some abstract notions and feelings which are difficult to emulate and can not be directly referred to. Human beings get accustomed to using their familiar things to explain the implication of some cultural phenomena. Different cultural atmosphere and natural ecological environments make people have different association. Plants are the symbol of the natural world and the representative of the beautiful natural surroundings and they are closely related to human existence. Many idiomatic usages and symbols about plants came into being, and so did such culture. Generally speaking, people take interest in those beautiful or vigorous plants, which arouse their deep feeling. For example, the Westerners like to use "rose", for they take it as a love token. But in Chinese culture, the plants "pine, bamboo and plum" remind people of the spirit of being vigorous, tall and straight, the symbol of long life and exemplary conduct and nobility of character and branches and flowers that withstand the frost and defy the snow. The identical colors like red, blue, black, white, green, gray, yellow may be used most frequently by the world people, but they bring them different associative meaning. The color "red" in English symbolizes "violence, deficit", while it symbolizes "happy, a festival day, revolution" in Chinese. Influenced by experience, cultural traditions and social institutions, people have gradually formed their own values, aesthetic standards, moral standards and religious tradition. According to their experience, speeches which human beings use animals as vehicles to speak highly of noble human behavior or spirit or belittle undue human behavior have been produced. In western culture, "owl" symbolizes wisdom, calmness, while in Chinese culture, "owl" is described as the phantom of the devil and the symbol of ill omen. So once people establish relationship between some language signs and objects, which is acknowledged by a particular society, certain symbols may come into being. Different symbols derive from different cultures. Language sign system is the symbolic representation of a people and comprises their outlooks on life, their values, their customs, their ways of living and thinking as well as their historic and cultural backgrounds. Therefore, during the development language sign system and its profound cultural connotations have been deeply ingrained with traces of social life, reflecting the unique cultural tradition of a particular society. Symbols with rich and colorful feelings may lead to great differences due to the different cultural backgrounds of the coders. It is a meaningful effort to probe into implied meanings of symbols based on the analysis of denotations and profound cultural connotations as well as discuss the intercultural differences in different cultural backgrounds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]