The invention discloses a light field projection method used for scene illumination recovery, and belongs to the technical field of virtual reality. In the method, a device adopting a projector and a lens array is designed to perform the light field projection, light field data is converted into a light field to perform projection, and the scene illumination is recovered. The method comprises the following specific steps: firstly, converting a sampled optical measurement image sequence into the four-dimensional light field expression of the scene illumination; then, clustering point light sources on a light source plane, generating projection sub-images for all the point light sources clustered, and performing distortion correction and image stitching; finally, after geometric calibration and luminance calibration, adopting a projector to project the projected images on the lens array, and refracting light rays on the other side through lenses to form a plane light field, so as to recover the illumination of an original scene. The illumination recovered by adopting the method has higher realness, higher space freedom degree and higher practicability. The method is applicable to the illumination application fields such as video and film special effects and stage lighting control.