Abstract: 120 rural children aged 3-6 years were selected as the research subjects.Questionnaire surveys and scenario hypotheses were used to examine the differences in terms of the use frequency and scores of early childhood emotional expression strategies and whether family parenting styles affected the use of rural children’s emotional expression strategies in the negative and positive situations of the six basic emotions of happiness, expectation, pride, anger, disappointment and fear.It was found that: (1) The frequency of use of left-behind children’s emotional expression strategies was significantly different between left-behind children and non-left-behind ones (P<0.05) ; (2) In negative situation, the emotional expression scores of left-behind children were significantly lower than those of non-left-behind children (P<0.001) ; (3) Emotionally warm parenting positively predicted scores of children’s emotional expression strategies in negative situation (P<0.001) ; (4) Preference positively predicted children’s emotional expression strategies score in positive situation (P<0.05) .