Abstract: The gender perspective of Marx and Engels is an important criterion for judging the possibility, adequacy, scientificity and reality of historical materialism as a method, and the basic criterion for realizing self-reflection. At THE same time, the exploration of the theoretical relationship between Marx and Engels' gender vision and historical materialism is also the fundamental understanding of the historical task and measurement standard of human universal liberation, and the basic cognition of the direct restriction conditions of the liberation of productive forces and the reform of social system, which has epoch-making significance. Therefore, respond to the interpretation of the scholars at home and abroad is unknown and economic determinism and inexperienced fragmentation of misreading, to reveal and explore "four elements" of Marx and Engels gender horizon "three traditional", namely, natural selection, population scale, production technology as well as the deduction in the possession of resources and property inheritance, the division of labor, and the solidified structure of ideology, It is an inevitable choice to understand the rich levels, systematic exposition and rigorous argumentation of Marx and Engels' thoughts and point to contemporary practice.