Objective To realize the food hygiene status of rural familial banquets in Jiangsu Province and provide scientific evidence for the sanitation supervision. Method A surveies of questionnaires and detection were conducted for 238 rural familial banquets. Results The overall hygiene levels of rural familial banquets were very poor, Layouts and facilities of treatment food were reasonless and fewer, intereross pollution were very serious, dishes were not disinfected and the status of personal hygiene of cooks were poor. The qualified rates of Colon bacillus on the dishes and microbes on the surface of chopping block were 44.20% and 18.42% respectively. The analysis of logistic regression indicated that the qualified rates of pesticide residues in vegetables and microbe survival in cooked meat were 95.90% and 64.52% respectively. K-W test showed the rate presented a decline trend from February to June. Conclusion It was suggested that more supervisions could be needed in order to improve the hygiene status of rural familial banquets.