The invention discloses a household electrical appliance linkage starting method and a household electrical appliance linkage starting system. The household electrical appliance linkage starting method comprises steps that virtual household environment is created; a scene is newly built in the virtual household environment; preset fingerprint information is acquired, and is used as a scene saving control command; fingerprint information of a linkage starter is read, and when the fingerprint information of the linkage starter is matched with the preset fingerprint information, a scene execution command is transmitted to all of the household electrical appliances in the scene, and the household electrical appliances in the scene are started and/or shut down. The household electrical appliance linkage starting system comprises an intelligent terminal and at least two household electrical appliances, which are connected together by a wireless network. The intelligent terminal comprises an environment creation module, a scene building module, a fingerprint identification module, and a command transmitting module. The invention provides a scheme of starting the household electrical appliance linkage by the fingerprint identification, and by the fingerprint identity identification, the household electrical appliance linkage preset by the preset fingerprint is started, and therefore the household electrical appliance linkage is started safely, conveniently, and intelligently, and the problem of the vicious control over the household electrical appliance linkage is completely solved.