The invention relates to a wave correlation based current protection method for power collecting lines in a wind farm. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, three-phase current in protective mounting position of each power collecting line in the wind farm is collected; filtering is performed, and fault component current of each phase is extracted by programming; correlation coefficients of the phases between the power collecting lines is calculated according to the fault component current, and the correlation coefficients are traversed pairwise; if the correlation coefficient of one phase belongs to (0, 1], the phase of the two power collecting lines has no fault, and the two power collecting lines are written as line i and line j; if the correlation coefficient of the one phase does not belong to (0,1], the phase of one and only one of the two power collecting lines has a fault, and the two power collecting lines are written as line u and line v; at the moment, when the correlation coefficient of the phase between the line u and the line j belongs to (0,1], the phase of the power collecting line u has no fault, while the phase of the power collecting line v has a fault; when the correlation coefficient of the phase between the line u and the line j does not belong to (0,1], the phase of the power collecting line u has a fault, while the phase of the power collecting line v has no fault.