Transformer， one of the best existing machine translation models， is based on the standard end?to?end structure and only relies on pairs of parallel sentences， which is believed to be able to learn knowledge in the corpus automatically. However， this modeling method lacks explicit guidance and cannot effectively mine deep language knowledge， especially in the low?resource environment with limited corpus size and quality， where the sentence encoding has no prior knowledge constraints， leading to the decline of translation quality. In order to alleviate the issues above， a neural machine translation model based on source language syntax enhanced decoding was proposed to explicitly use the source language syntax to guide the encoding， namely SSED （Source language Syntax Enhanced Decoding）. A syntax?aware mask mechanism based on the syntactic information of the source sentence was constructed at first， and an additional syntax?dependent representation was generated by guiding the encoding self?attention. Then the syntax?dependent representation was used as a supplement to the representation of the original sentence and the decoding process was integrated by attention mechanism， which jointly guided the generation of the target language， realizing the enhancement of the prior syntax. Experimental results on several standard IWSLT （International Conference on Spoken Language Translation） and WMT （Conference on Machine Translation） machine translation evaluation task test sets show that compared with the baseline model Transformer， the proposed method obtains a BLEU score improvement of 0.84 to 3.41 respectively， achieving the state?of?the?art results of the syntactic related research. The fusion of syntactic information and self?attention mechanism is effective， the use of source language syntax can guide the decoding process of the neural machine translation system and significantly improve the quality of translation.