The invention discloses a cutting device suitable for adjustment of a diamond wire mesh and a cutting method, and belongs to the field of photovoltaic products. According to the cutting device, the cutting wire mesh is arranged between two wire guiding wheels, a plurality of crystal rods are fixedly mounted on a crystal holder, edge cutting gaps are formed in the first end and the tail end, at thewire guiding wheels, of the cutting wire mesh correspondingly, the two edge cutting gaps correspond to the edge of the left side of the crystal rod located on the left side, and the edge of the rightside of the crystal rod located on the right side correspondingly, and a first diamond wire at the wire inlet end and a first diamond wire at the wire outlet end of the cutting wire mesh are arrangedwith the corresponding crystal rods in a staggered mode. The method comprises the steps that the crystal holder moves downwards, thus all the crystal rods descend at the speed of 2.0-2.2 mm/min, allthe crystal rods start to be cut after making contact with the cutting wire mesh, and the first crystal rod, the second crystal rod and the third crystal rod are cut simultaneously through the cuttingwire mesh. The first wire at the wire inlet end and the first wire at the wire outlet end of the cutting wire mesh can be prevented from being broken; and by adjusting the length of the cutting gaps,the crystal rods of different lengths can be quickly switched to be cut.