The invention discloses a milling flutter recognition method based on variation modal decomposition and energy entropy, and belongs to the technical field of machine tool machining flutter recognition. The milling flutter recognition method comprises the following steps of S1, establishing a VMD mathematical model; S2, establishing a mathematical model of the energy entropy; S3, conducting three sets of milling machining experiments representing three cutting states, including stable cutting, a weak flutter and a severe flutter, and obtaining three sets of milling force signals through a dynamometer; S4, conducting FFT analysis on the three sets of milling force signals, and proving that the three sets of milling force signals represent the states of stable cutting, the weak flutter and the severe flutter respectively; S5, determining the number K of optimal modals of VMD decomposition and a penalty factor alpha through a VMD parameter automatic selection method based on a kurtosis value; S6, solving instantaneous frequencies of multiple IMF, and determining a milling flutter characteristic frequency band; S7, adopting a hammering experiment to obtain the modal of a knife; S8, extracting a flutter characteristic vector of each IMF based on the energy entropy. According to the milling flutter recognition method based on the variation modal decomposition and the energy entropy, the VDM decomposition effect is improved, and automatic flutter recognition is achieved.