The traditional methods of detecting energetic materials are mainly based on chemical sensing and precise instrument measurement, but these two methods are usually difficult to achieve the detection of explosives rapidly.In the past more than 10 years, in the crossing field of supermolecular material and coordination chemistry, a new material-luminescent metal-organic frameworks (LMOFs) has emerged, due to the porous, high quantum yield and stability characteristics of this material, it is considered to be an excellent luminescent material. On the one hand, LMOFs combine the advantages of organic luminescent materials and metal luminescent materials, and improve the luminous efficiency of the system through energy transfer within the skeleton. On the other hand, LMOFs have orderly pore structure and large specific surface, which is beneficial to the selective recognition of different explosive molecules.Therefore, LMOFs display promising applications in the molecular fluorescence recognition and detection of explosives.The paper introduces the research progress of LMOFs in the field of recognition and detection of explosives systematically, the main research objects include three categories, nitro-explosives, nitro-geo hetercyclic explosives and explosives without nitrogen. The recognition mechanizm and recognition selectivity of LMOFs are mainly summarized. In the future, the research on the detection of explosives by LMOFs may pay more attention to the exploration of surface modification of materials, improvement of water stability and detection of nitro-geo hetercyclic explosives and other aspects.