The invention discloses a sparking plug ignition device in a combustion chamber of a small rotary engine and a method, and belongs to the field of small rotary engines. The device provided by the invention comprises a first working chamber, a second working chamber, an ordinary sparking plug, a sparking plug channel, an ignition chamber, sealing sheets and a third working chamber, and further comprises an engine cylinder, a modified sparking plug, a modified sparking plug anode, bushings, a cathode and a triangle rotor. The sparking plug ignition device provided by the invention has the following advantages by removing the ignition chamber and the sparking plug channel: (1) energy loss is reduced and the probability of blow-by of gas between two adjacent cylinders is lowered; and (2) the compression ratio can also be improved without changing the rest of the structure, and the smaller the size of an engine, the greater the increase in the compression ratio. By improving the ignition position from the interior of the ignition chamber to the interior of the combustion chamber, the following advantages are achieved: (1) the flame propagation distance is greatly reduced, and the possibility of knocking and flame quenching of the small rotary engine is reduced; and (2) the direct contact of spark with compressed fresh gas mixture reduces the difficulty in ignition.