The invention relates to an explosive detection method based on a colorimetric array technology, and a detector involved in the method is composed of a sampling module, an image acquisition module, an ARM board card, an FPGA board card, a liquid crystal display module, a lithium battery and a power switch.According to the method, an area causing turbulent flow is designed in a sampling cavity; the airflow carrying the crystal cluster particles can be kept in the cavity for a longer time, and finally, the micro-nano colorimetric sensing chip has a good effect of collecting the floating explosive crystal cluster particles, and the micro-nano colorimetric sensing chip integrates a plurality of independent areas based on a colorimetric array technology and has the capability of carrying out specific color reaction with floating explosive crystal cluster particles; the method has the characteristic of intelligently and chemically analyzing the types of various standard and non-standard explosives, can accurately report the names, components and the like of the explosives or the easy-to-explode raw materials, covers the explosives and the easy-to-explode raw materials in the detection range, and achieves trace detection of the explosives and the easy-to-explode raw materials.