Disclosed is a micro-expression recognition method based on a multi-scale spatiotemporal feature neural network, in which spatial features and temporal features of micro-expression are obtained from micro-expression video frames, and combined together to form more robust micro-expression features, at the same time, since the micro-expression occurs in local areas of a face, active local areas of the face during occurrence of the micro-expression and an overall area of the face are combined together for micro-expression recognition.