The present invention provides a display method and a display panel. The display panel comprises a plurality of rows of sub-pixels, the adjacent sub-pixels in the column direction having different colors and being staggered from each other by ½ of the sub-pixel in the row direction. The display method comprises: S1, generating an original image composed of a matrix of virtual pixels; S2, enabling the virtual pixels to correspond to sampling locations, wherein each sampling location corresponds to a virtual pixel; each sampling location is located between every two adjacent rows of the sub-pixels, and corresponds to a location between two sub-pixels in one row and a central location of a sub-pixel in the other row; and S3, calculating a display component of each sub-pixel in accordance with original components of corresponding colors of virtual pixels corresponding to the sub-pixel. The present invention is suitable for high resolution display.