The invention belongs to a method and a device for producing ice crystals by water, and particularly discloses a method and a device for producing snowflake ice crystals by normal-temperature tap water or purified water. The device comprises a refrigerating system, a cold carrying system, a waterway system, a control system, and the like. Compared with the prior ice producing mechanism, the method and the device have the characteristics of high ice producing efficiency, power utilization economy and small ice particles; the produced ice can be ice water mixture or ice slurry or water-filtered dry ice; and the method and the device are mainly used for processing factories, transportation industry and supermarkets to refrigerating and cooling vegetables, fruits, meat, fishes and shrimps, and have the advantages of large contact surface, quick temperature reduction, low fresh-keeping temperature, no damage, and the like.