The invention discloses a sintering preparation method of boron carbide ceramic, which comprises the following steps: 1. sintering: carrying out mixing and ball milling on boron carbide powder, carbon powder, metal powder, a dispersant, an adhesive and deionized water to make a slurry, carrying out spray granulation, pressing into a biscuit, presintering for debonding, and carrying out thermal-insulation sintering at lower sintering temperature (slightly higher than the melting point of metal), thereby implementing primary shrinkage sintering of the product by utilizing the surface tension of the molten metal in the system; and 2. sintering: continuing enhancing the sintering temperature, carrying out in-situ reaction to generate metal carbide, metal boride or metal boro-carbide and nano B4C which have higher sintering activity, and forming a solid solution with boron carbide granules by using the metal carbide, metal boride or metal boro-carbide and nano B4C as sintering assistants to promote the further shrinkage sintering of the system, thereby obtaining the high-performance boron carbide ceramic. The method has the advantages of both the normal-pressure sintering technique and the reactive sintering technique.