The utility model relates to a pair of quick opening pipe tongs with a universal steering head, comprising a wrench handle, a fixed tong body, a movable tong body, a jaw and an adjusting mechanism which is used for adjusting the quick opening and closing of the jaw and the relative included angle of the tongs bodies and the wrench handle. The adjusting mechanism is achieved by the mutual engaging or mutual disengaging of the ratchet wheel arranged in the fixed tongs body and the ratchet bar arranged in the movable tong body. The tong bodies of the utility model can rotate 360 DEG corresponding to the wrench handle to fit operations with various angles. The quick opening or closing of the jaw can be completed by lifting the tong bodies or pushing right the movable tong body.