The invention provides a preparation method of a porous ceramic particle. The preparation method comprises the following steps of adopting pulverized fuel ash, construction waste, mine mud, clay and feldspar as main raw materials, adopting pulverized coal and the like as foaming agents, pretreating, mixing, pelleting, drying, and firing to obtain the porous ceramic particle. The porous ceramic particle prepared through the invention has the characteristics of high strength, long service life, low density, good liquidity, high water absorption, good nutrient preserving capability, high water-retaining property, good air permeability, easiness in controlling particle size, high in reusability, excellent in anti-hardening performance and the like; without the need of other soil, a matrix canbe directly applied to plant cultivation, can be widely applied to greening an outer wall, a roof, a square, a park, a desert and the like, and can be further widely applied to a soil conditioner, a fertilizer efficiency conditioner, an anti-hardening agent and the like. The preparation method of the porous ceramic particle provided by the invention is simple in process, high in production efficiency, low in cost, and suitable for large-scale industrial production.