The invention belongs to the technical field of sintering flue gas purification technologies, and provides a sintering flue gas purification system and method achieving energy conservation and emission reduction in order to solve the problems existing in the prior sintering flue gas purification technology. The system comprises a sintering machine, a flue gas distributor, a sintering machine bottom bellows, a sintering machine large gas duct, an electric dust remover, a sintering main exhaust fan, a first fan, a second fan, an adsorption tower, a chimney, a material conveyor and a regeneration tower. Besides, a heat exchanger is arranged in the sintering machine large gas duct of the system, or the system is further provided with a dust remover, and all the devices are connected sequentially through pipelines. The method includes the steps of utilization of flue gas heat of the sintering machine, adsorption of the adsorption tower and regeneration of active coke. According to the system and method, on the basis of effectively controlling the temperature of flue gas, fully utilizing heat-contained exhaust gas, reducing the scale of an active coke flue gas purification device, avoiding secondary pollution and realizing recycling of resources, the investment and operation expenses are lowered.