Let p(·) : R n → (0, ∞) be a variable exponent function satisfying the globally log-Hölder continuous condition. In this paper, we obtain the boundedness of para-product operators π b on variable Hardy spacesAs an application, we show that non-convolution type Calderón-Zygmund operators T are bounded on H p(·) (R n ) if and only if T * 1 = 0, where n n+ǫ < ess inf x∈R n p ≤ ess sup x∈R n p ≤ 1, ǫ is the regular exponent of kernel of T . Our approach relies on the discrete version of Calderón's reproducing formula, discrete Littlewood-Paley-Stein theory and almost orthogonal estimates. These results still hold for variable Hardy space on spaces of homogeneous type by using our methods.