【導(dǎo)讀】在跨文化交際中它幫助人們傳情達意，突破語言障礙，促進交流。然而即使我們對常用的身勢語有所了解，我們?nèi)匀幻媾R著一些困難，身。勢語含義千變?nèi)f化，即使同一身勢語在不同的文化背景都有不同的含義。

　　

【正文】 xpressing emotions, in which smile and cry are two opposite and representative behaviors. However, different cultures have different rules to display emotions. We first talk about the meanings of ‘cry’ in China and America. Chinese people must cry their eyes out if their close relatives such as their family member pass away although they have no tears to cry out. Otherwise, other people would gossip secretly that they don’t have filial piety. Unlike in Western countries crying loudly before people are taken as indelicacy. No matter how sad they are, they must stand tears. However, a minority in a small island of American think crying is the best courtesy, so which is indispensable amenity in wedding or important party. 2. The Different Understanding of Smile between China and Western When people talk about smile it means friendliness and happiness in most situations, but a tribe of Saudi Arabia thinks smile is the expression of unneighborly. If a boy want to fall in love with a girl there, don’t smile, a smile can blow him off. In China and Englishspeaking country, smiles stand for friendliness and happiness. However, in some special occasions, especially when people feel embarrassed, Chinese people’s smile can be disgusted by the Western people. One story can tell us the different cognition about smiles between Chinese and Englishspeaking countries. A Chinese couple held a party in their home and invited a foreign friend, but the foreign friends broke up a glass with a heavy hand, so he felt very sorry and embarrass, but the Chinese people broke out laughter voice, which made the foreign fiends flush and feel more embarrassed, Who thought they were laughed at, but actually the Chinese people just means that “take it easy”. In China, smiles have many kinds of different meanings, such as “appreciation”, “acceptance”, “disapproval”, “it doesn’t matter” and so on. E. Hand Gesture Hand gesture is one of the most mon body language. Owing to different custom and culture, even if the same gestures maybe have great differences. Most people know the gesture of “ok” – thumb circle with forefinger means ok, the gesture of raising the thumb means all things go well, raising forefinger means number ‘one’ in general situation, but which may have different meanings even opposite meaning in some place of Latin America, the gesture of “thumb circle with forefinger” have the meaning of insulting. In 1950s, Richard Nixon, the vice president of America went to visit Latin America. He made gesture of “ok” to the crowd waiting at the airport after he took off airplanes, which of course ignite the local people, and they made a lot hiss at once. In fact Nixon’s gesture just means “every well, thank you, I’m very well”. But the Local people thought it means defiance, because some counties have attitude of antagonism to American, the gesture of the president became the top line of paper next day. The gesture of “ok” in France can mean unworthiness or be over。 Japanese people think this kind of gesture as sign of money, so when a western entrepreneur deal with Japanese, don’t use gesture “ok” to express agreement to sign contract, or Japanese man will think you want to get bribe. Raising the big thumb also has different meaning in some countries in American and European, which means hitchhiking, but Nigeria think it means being rude, so if foreign visitor to Nigeria wants to take a taxi with the gesture of raising the big thumb, who would be hit, because the driver will think you are outraging him. If somebody like using thumb to express number, he or she also should pay attention. People often think rising fore thumb as number one, but in Germany raising big thumb means ‘one’, fore thumb means ‘two’. So if someone wants to drink one glass of bear in Germany, don’t fet the local custom of the finger and avoid making a fool. Conclusion In this essay author mainly talk about the body language of nonverbal language and introduce some kinds of monly used body language and their different uses in different cultural background. From the study of body language above, we know how important of body language and how plicated it is. I believe which can help the readers succeed in intercultural munications. The study of body language should be plementary to the study of language. The understanding about body language should be helpful in the further understanding of other foreign country’s language, but during the process of studying body language, there are some difficult places people should pay more attention to. a specific kind of culture tradition, national spirit, cultural character deeply originate from a specific society and nation. So people can’t ignore of the sanction and influence of the culture, and should know the meaning of body language in different countries and distinguish out the same body language’s use in different culture background. Therefore, there are six principles to conform to, which can help people treat culture difference correctly, which are: Excluding the feeling of cultural superiority。 excluding cultural prejudice。 treating other people’s custom correctly。 treating themselves’ custom correctly。 respecting mutually。 and equally municating. If people can do well all above they would be quite successful in intermunication. In short, body language is a kind of magical tool in intercultural munication, even if two speakers ing from different countries can’t speak each other’s language, they can understand each other smoothly by hand gesture, facial behavior, eye contact and so on. Acknowledgements Firstly, I want to thank my tutor, Ms. Cui, she always amends my paper carefully, and gives me great encouragement and help, so I can write my essay on time and finish it step by step. Moreover, my numerous th