The invention discloses a detection method for contents of varieties of flavonoids in taxus chinensis branches. The detection method is used for detecting contents of rutin, quercetin, amentoflavone,isoginkgetin and sciadopitysin and comprises the following steps: preparing a test sample solution; preparing a control product solution; performing high performance liquid chromatography measurementand respectively injecting the test sample solution and the control product solution into a high performance liquid chromatograph to be detected, wherein the chromatographic conditions are as following: C18 is utilized as a chromatographic column, a methyl alcohol-water mixed solution is utilized as a flow phase, gradient elution is performed, detection wavelength is 330nm, a flow velocity is 1.0mL/min, a column temperature is 30 DEG C, and the number of theoretical plates is not lower than 3000. The detection method disclosed by the invention utilizes the high performance liquid chromatography to detect contents of the rutin, the quercetin, the amentoflavone, the isoginkgetin and the sciadopitysin in the taxus chinensis branches at the same time; the method has the advantages of simpleness, good repeatability, high recovery rate, ability in accurately measuring the contents of 5 kinds of flavonoids in the taxus chinensis branches, convenience and quickness.