The invention discloses a red bayberry preservation method comprising the following steps of: firstly, picking up red bayberries; secondly, selecting fruits; thirdly, sterilizing a storehouse and a container; and fourthly, precooling, grading, refrigerating and packaging, wherein the packaging operation is carried out by using a method for preserving red bayberries through filling nitrogen gas in vacuum, which comprises the following steps of: (1) basketing, extracting air and filling air; placing precooled red bayberries into a plastic basket, covering the plastic basket, then, sleeving a preservation pouch, extracting air in the pouch by using air extraction equipment, then, filling pure nitrogen gas, next, sealing the pouch, and then placing the pouch into a foam box; (2) placing a purchased dry ice-cream brick in the middle of the foam box; and (3) boxing: covering a lid of the foam box, sealing a seam by using viscose paper, fixing the lid, and placing the sealed foam plastic box into an external paper packaging box. By using the red bayberry preservation method provided by the scheme, the red bayberries can be kept non-toxic and harmless, long in preservation period and firm in packaging on the premise that the tastes of the red bayberries are not changed, and damaging a package and a product can be avoided in the transportation process.