The invention relates to a method for preparing nano cuprous oxide by taking a copper-containing waste mobile phone circuit board as a raw material. The method comprises the following steps: 1) heating, stirring and dissolving crushed and ground powder of the waste mobile phone circuit board by using dilute nitric acid, and filtering to obtain an acid leaching solution; (2) uniformly mixing an oil-phase component surfactant Span80, a carrier Lix984, liquid paraffin and a membrane solvent kerosene, and then adding an isometric ascorbic acid solution while stirring at a high speed to obtain an emulsion; and 3) diluting the acid leaching solution with water, adjusting the pH value to 7-9, adding the emulsified liquid, stirring, then transferring into a separating funnel, separating, and standing. And 4) transferring the upper-layer emulsion to a centrifuge tube, adding absolute ethyl alcohol, centrifuging, washing, evaporating ethyl alcohol from a solid containing a small amount of ethyl alcohol to obtain the product nano cuprous oxide, and recovering the ethyl alcohol. The method is simple in process, low in recovery cost, environmentally friendly and reliable in quality.