The invention discloses a high squint SAR curvilinear path wavenumber domain imaging method based on a slope distance model, comprising: building a high squint SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) geometric model on a curvilinear path, selecting any point target Q, successively calculating an instantaneous slant distance R (ta) from an SAR aircraft to the point target Q, and a hyperbola instantaneous slant distance Re(ta) from the SAR aircraft to the point target Q, furthermore calculating the instantaneous slant distance R (X) from a high squint SAR aircraft on a curvilinear path to a point target, calculating distance frequency domain orientation time domain echo signals S (Kr, X) of a high squint SAR on a curvilinear path, furthermore successively calculating orientation time domain echo signals S<^> (Kr, X) of a high squint SAR on a curvilinear path after distance pulse pressure, and orientation time domain echo signals S (Kr, Kx) of a high squint SAR on a curvilinear path after fast fourier transform (FFT), setting an orientation resampling coefficient Kx-new, calculating orientation time domain echo signals S (Kr, Kx-new) of a high squint SAR on a curvilinear path after orientation resampling, furthermore calculating echo signals of a high squint SAR on a curvilinear path under a two-dimensional beam spectrum, successively performing range direction IFFT and azimuth IFFT, and obtaining high squint SAR imaging under a slope distance model.