With constant economic development and continuous improvement of living standards in Northeast China, rural tourism, as a new type of tourism, is increasingly favored. From the perspective of symbolic interaction theory, taking the current situation of rural tourism in Northeast China as an example, this paper explained the semiotic significance between hosts and guests in rural tourism. It established the evaluation indicators for authentic symbolic perception of rural tourism. Also, combined with the theories of sociology and anthropology, it studied the interaction between hosts and tourists of rural tourism in Northeast China.