The invention discloses a method for refreshing water-detacted live portunus tritubercularus, which comprises the steps of: 1, purifying the portunus tritubercularus in seawater, and then putting the portunus tritubercularus in the 2-5 DEG C seawater for soaking for 3-5min to ensure that the portunus tritubercularus is in a narcosis state, wherein the 2-5 DEG C seawater contains 0.1 percent of stable vitamin C; 2, putting a moisturizing material in the 2-5 DEG C seawater containing 0.1 percent of stable vitamin C for soaking until the moisturizing material is saturated; and 3, firstly placingan oxygenating agent in a cavity in the middle of a package box, then laying one layer of moisturizing material above the oxygenating agent, placing the portunus tritubercularus above the moisturizing material, placing one layer of moisturizing material, i.e. a second layer of moisturizing material, above the portunus tritubercularus and covering the packaging box by the cover thereof. The methoddisclosed by the invention has the advantages of long survival time of the portunus tritubercularus, capability of effectively ensuring the edible value and enlarging the marketing range, clean surface of the portunus tritubercularus body, and low cost.