The mechanical properties of slip soil play a key role in landslide stability. In order to study this control mechanism, multigroup experiments on the slip soil of a landslide were conducted in the Three Gorges reservoir in Zigui county involving consolidated quick direct shear test and consolidated drained direct shear test, through which the strain hardening property of this slip soil has been studiedas well as mechanism of landslide deformation resulting from the strain hardening slip soil. The results show that from plastic deformation to shear failure, the shear stress applied to this slip soil increases all the way. After repeated shearing, its shear strength increases, and the greater the normal stress, the more the shear strength increases, in which process the angle of internal friction contributes the most to its shear strength variation. Through the field investigation and numerical modeling, how the strain hardening slip soil affects the landslide stability was studied. In the process of sliding, the frictional strength of the strain hardening slip soil increases after being shearing, leading to the consumption of the landslide’s kinetic energy, following the phenomenon that a temporary steady state occurs after a short distance sliding.