The invention discloses a SiOC 
ceramic material used for preparing the 
cathode of a 
lithium ion battery, a preparation method thereof and a 
lithium ion battery prepared from the 
ceramic material. The SiOC 
ceramic material comprises 
silicon, 
oxygen and carbon, and the mol ratio of 
silicon to 
oxygen to carbon is 1: alpha: beta, wherein, alpha is 0.4 to 0.2, beta is 0.4 to 5.0, and alpha plus beta is 0.8 to 7.0. The preparation method comprises the following steps: preparing 
organosilicon polymers with a molecular formula of a(R1R2SiO)x(R3R4SiO2)y(R5R6SiO3)zb, wherein, a and b are terminated functional groups, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are functional groups, at least one of which is 
hydrogen groups or alkenyl groups, x is 0.3 to 1, y is 0 to 0.7, z is 0 to 0.5, and x plus y plus z is 1; preparing organic small molecular compounds which comprise active groups that can react with 
hydrogen groups, 
silanol groups or alkenyl groups; mixing the 
organosilicon polymers with the organic small molecular compounds, preparing the two into a 
copolymer through crossing and curing, and carrying out 
pyrolysis so as to obtain the SiOC ceramic material. The 
lithium ion battery provided in the invention has the characteristics of high capacity, good cycle performance and high reversible capacity.