The invention relates to a method for preparing Tujia cured meat. The method comprises the following 10 processes of: preparing a meat blank raw material, stirring and mixing the raw material, pickling, soaking, airing, baking, smudging, mixing colors, protecting the colors and taste and packaging. The method has the advantages that pricklyash peel and table salt are used only in pickled ingredients, so that the conventional distinctive character of pickling the Tujia cured meat is kept; the operation of baking for dehydration and the operation of smudging for flavoring is separated in the smoke curing process, so that the cured meat can be controlled; the taste of the cured meat is fragrant and diffused by using smoke generated by fresh pine and cypress branches and oriental oak wood; the colors are mixed by utilizing the concentration of the smoke, so that the natural color of the cured meat is kept and an effect of brown color can also be achieved under the condition that pigments are not used; and by the processes of protecting the colors and taste and packaging, the specific color of the cured meat is constant for a long time, and the cured meat can be stored for a long time without deterioration. The Tujia cured meat is brown in color, transparent, bright, consistent in outside and inside, diffused in fragrance, soft in mellow taste, tender in meat and fat but not greasy.