A traffic flow forwarding path redirection method and apparatus, and a traffic flow forwarding system, where the method includes determining a redirection parameter of a virtual network element through which a traffic flow passes, where the virtual network element includes a plurality of physical network elements, establishing, according to a topological relationship of the physical network elements in the virtual network element, a redirection path to forward the traffic flow between an inbound interface of a start physical network element and an outbound interface of an end physical network element, generating tunnel forwarding information of the redirection path, and sending, to the physical network elements on the redirection path, packet labels respectively corresponding to the physical network elements. Hence, a traffic flow forwarding path redirection process is simplified.