The invention discloses a single cylinder rotation type icebreaking snowmaker, which comprises a frame, a main support, a transverse fixed plate, a breaking cylinder, an end protective ring, a fixed wheel frame, rollers, a track, breaking teeth, a breaking cylinder motor and feeding guide plates, wherein the breaking cylinder is fixedly connected with a main shaft through a support rod, an ice cutting hole is arranged on the breaking cylinder, the breaking teeth are arranged in the breaking cylinder, and of a strip shape, the lengths of the breaking teeth are 20-40mm, the vertical cross sections of the breaking teeth are of a triangle or an isosceles trapezoid, the end protective rings are arranged on the two ends of the breaking cylinder, are of a ring shape, chain wheels are respectively arranged on an ice particle conveyor belt motor and a conveyor shaft, belt wheels are respectively arranged on the breaking cylinder motor and the main shaft, and a power supply switch is arranged in a control box. The single cylinder rotation type icebreaking snowmaker can cut ice blocks into fine ice particles, is suitable for different volumes and shapes of ice blocks, is high in breaking efficiency, is extremely uniform in size of the ice particles, and is simple in structure and flexible to move.