The invention relates to a contact surface bidirectional shear test device, comprising an upper shear box, a lower shear box, a normal pressure device, an X/Y direction shear transmission device, an X/Y direction thrusting device, an X/Y direction moving device and a data collection device. According to the device provided by the invention, the upper shear box is fixed, the lower shear box can perform shear in the X/Y direction by means of the X/Y direction shear transmission device to generate a shear displacement, the contact area of upper and lower samples remains unchanged during the test,and there is no need to correct the area. The device can also study the mutual embedding characteristics of soil bodies made of different materials by applying normal loads. The device provided by the invention can test the stress deformation characteristics in the X/Y direction and the mutual embedding characteristics in the normal direction of the contact surfaces of soil bodies with differentengineering characteristics, and the indoor experimental research on the stress deformation characteristics of the contact surface in different directions is achieved. During the test, the applicationof load, shear displacement and shear rate setting and data collection are all controlled by a computer, and the test device has high measurement accuracy, simple and easy operation, and a low test cost.