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Introduction The diversity of human culture is historically evolved. Both Chinese culture and European culture have absorbed nourishing from other cultures. In fact, every culture has tow dimensions: One is the vertical dimension, which acts as a totalizing force of the mains body of a certain culture, the other is the horizontal dimension which plays an important role in the extension of former dimension by breaking away from the cultural mainstream and opening up new branches. On the other hand, the general awareness of “diverse culture” can be attributed to the corollary of the so-called globalization, which has led to the collapse of colonial system and every kind of culture centrism. Within such social context, many scholars have realized the importance of intercultural communication. Intercultural communication, as you might suspect, is not new. Wandering nomads, religious missionaries, and conquering warriors have encountered people different from themselves since the beginning of time. These meetings were frequently confusing and quite often hostile. In ancient times, the recognition of alien differences lacked accompanying cultural knowledge and often elicited the human propensity to respond malevolently to those differences. This notion was expressed over two thousand years ago by the Greek playwright Aeschylus who wrote “everyone’s quick to blame the alien”. This sentiment is still a powerful element in today's society to hear that all of the social and economic problems in the United States are caused by immigrants. Despite the persistence of this notion, today's intercultural encounters differ from earlier meetings. They are more significant. We can now board a plane and fly anywhere in the world in a matter of hours, and the reality of a global economy makes today's contacts far more commonplace in any other period of the world history. For example, in just a single year, 1994 to 1995 multinational companies boosted their international investments 40 percent to a record 315 billion dollars. Reflect for a moment that the slurpees we drink now come from over a thousand 7-Elevens owned by the Japanese. The wed linking us together become vivid when we see a newspaper headline that tells us 'Americans Once Again into Africa...And Staying a Lot Longer in Bosnia. Additionally, the emergence of the information age had allowed us the opportunity to expand our knowledge so that the recognition of culture differences need not result in hostile encounters. Think of the message sent to the world when U.S. and Russian astronauts-whose countries a decade ago were archenemies-began to participate in joint space ventures ironic and humorous as it might have seemed it reflect a new world order. The above examples emphasize the changes that have taken place throughout the world and the home. In my paper, I'll mainly discuss the intercultural communication in the literature area-The folk tales and appreciations about th e moon in different cultures. 1. The moon in China culture In China culture, the moon is the symbol of overstepping time and space. Thousands of years ago, a beautiful girl ate a kind of drug which could make people maintain young and never die. Then after she become as light as feather, and flied into the moon. There, she would never old and die, only accompanied by the jade rabbit and Wu Gang. The jade rabbit repetited to pug the drug. And Wu Gang, that strong and energetic man, was punished to cut trees day and light.