It plays an important role in our daily life, sometimes it is even more powerful than the verbal interaction. Different gestures have different meanings.
Different nationalities have specific gestures and emotions.
However, due to the different background and culture, even the same gesture and emotion has different meaning for different people in certain contexts. Thus, it is very useful for us to understand people by understanding their basic nonverbal communicative skills. China is one of the largest countries in the world, the birth place of ancient culture and civilization. In general, one may say that by the influence of Confucius' philosophical thinking, the Chinese have become more reserved or at least the gestures expressing emotions are comparatively less expressive. As the verbal language, the nonverbal register of gestures lasts for a long time, but in different historic times, there are different gestures.