The invention discloses a single-freedom-degree moving dodecahedron foldable symmetric coupling mechanism. A regular pentagon face A1A2A3A4A5 and a regular pentagon face B1B2B3B4B5 are taken as a geometric element and each replaced with a regular pentagon component, the other ten vertexes are C, C', D, D', E, E', F, F', G and G' and are replaced with ten isosceles triangle components, and the other twenty edges A1C, A2D, A3E, A4F, A5G, B1C', B2D', B3E', B4F' and B5G' are replaced with twenty connecting rods which each comprise two rotary pairs. Five rotary pair axes on each pentagon component are located in a pentagon plane. The five rotary pair axes on each regular pentagon component are marked as a1, a2, a3, a4 and a5 in the clockwise direction, the middle point of the axis of a1, the middle point of the axis of a3 and the middle point of the axis of a4 of each regular pentagon component are connected to form an isosceles triangle component, and three rotary pairs on each isosceles triangle component are located in a triangle plane. Each connecting rod is a connecting rod piece which comprises the two connecting rotary pairs and is of the same kind, and the axes of the two rotary pairs of each connecting rod are parallel to each other.