Starting from Meishan culture,on the basis of analyzing the present situation of rural tourist food packaging design in Meishan area,the paper summarized the primordial,pluralistic and mysterious characteristics of Meishan culture,extracted the primitive and plain cultural symbol elements,proposed three design methods of prototype symbol translation,form multiple composition and emotion memory expression method,and applied those methods into the Meishan area tourist food packaging design practice,in order to promote the inheritance of Meishan culture and development of Meishan area tourism.