The invention discloses an ethylene low-temperature purification device, which is mainly used for treating tail gas generated in a synthesis process or an ethylene production process taking ethylene as a raw material, such as defoaming gas generated in a preparation process of a vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer, tail gas generated in an ethylene production process and the like. The process tail gas generally contains ethylene, vinyl acetate or heavy components, nitrogen, methane, ethane, oxygen, carbon dioxide, water or methanol and the like, and ethylene product gas with the purity reaching 99.5% (mole) or above can be obtained through the device. A cryogenic separation cold box unit integrating a molecular sieve adsorption purification unit, a plate-fin heat exchanger (6/40/41), a heavy component separation tank, an ethylene separation tank or an ethylene purification tower, a low-temperature separation cold box unit of an ethylene storage tank or a liquid refrigerant siphon tank, a refrigerant compressor unit and a connecting pipeline is adopted by the device, the device has the characteristics of low energy consumption, small investment, easiness in adjustment and the like, and the overall economic benefit of an enterprise is improved.