There are disclosed a gate driving circuit and a display device, which include: M areas, each area includes K sub driving circuit, and the k-th sub driving circuit includes: first and second row driving circuits, both of which include: a gate line grating control module (11) including a row control signal input terminal and an area grating signal input terminal, and an output terminal of the gate line grating control module (11) outputs a gate line grating signal according to received k-th and (k+1)-th row control signals and area grating signal; and a gate driving signal output module (12) including a gate line grating signal input terminal, a first-level driving signal input terminal and a second-level driving signal input terminal, and an output terminal of the gate driving signal output module (12) is connected to the gate line. The gate driving circuit can enhance flexibility of a scanning mode.