The invention discloses a flexural guided wave monitoring method applied to early warning the break of a tailings pond dam body. The method comprises the steps of 1, determining the position of a monitoring point along the span direction of a fill dam on the basis of fully analyzing existing engineering data and performing geological surveying and mapping; 2, drilling a hole at the position of the monitoring point and pre-embedding a waveguide rod array: 1, drilling the hole at the position of the monitoring point and pre-embedding a PVC pipe; 2, selecting a waveguide rod; 3, determining the number N of the waveguide rods; 4, placing the waveguide rods at the central position of the PVC pipe; and 5, plugging the opening with a rubber plug; 3, installing a flexural guided wave sensor; 4, building a signal collection base station; 5, collecting signals; and 6, analyzing and processing data. The flexural guided wave monitoring method applied to early warning the break of the tailings pond dam body provided by the invention has the advantages of low labor cost, all-weather automatic monitoring, simple and easy to operate and simple in data analysis, and has fewer error factors and relatively high detection accuracy.