The promulgation of the Civil Code, an encyclopedia of social life, has aroused widespread concern and heated discussion among the people, especially the response to the new system of divorce cooling-off period in the compilation of marriage and family, there was a lot of opposition. The application scope of the cooling-off period of divorce should be limited to the registration of divorce, which is not only the legislative intention but also the proper interpretation. The divorce proceedings have implied a cooling-off period, there is no need to apply a cooling-off period for divorce. The cooling-off period of divorce and the freedom of divorce are not opposite relations but complement each other. Through summing up the practical experience at home and abroad, our country should increase the relevant supporting measures of divorce cooling-off period in the future, and can set up flexible cooling-off period, the aim of reducing frivolous divorce and maintaining marriage and family will be realized.