The invention discloses a method for controlling cheering sticks to emit light based on a UWB location technology, First, setting location base stations, and generating a wireless local area network by the location base stations to cover a target area; next, after cheering sticks are connected to the location base stations through the wireless local area network, calculating positions of the cheering sticks according to signals sent by the location base stations; and converting the position coordinates into display coordinates according to a stadium seat mapping table obtained from the base stations; and finally, acquiring, by the cheering sticks, animation data from the location base stations, calculating play sequences of the cheering sticks according to the animation data and the display coordinates, acquiring, by the cheering sticks, play times from the base stations, and synchronously playing the play sequences to realize animation play of a whole cheering stick array.