The invention discloses sunlight-excitable phosphorescent carbon quantum dots, a preparation method therefor and an application of the sunlight-excitable room-temperature phosphorescent carbon quantumdots. The preparation for the carbon quantum dots comprises the steps: 1) placing diethylene triamine pentacetic acid in a reaction vessel, adding secondary water, carrying out thorough stirring, andcarrying out ultrasonic treatment, so as to obtain a settled solution; 2) placing the settled solution containing reaction vessel in a baking oven, heating a temperature of the reaction vessel to 150DEG C to 200 DEG C, and carrying out a reaction for 3 to 8 hours, so as to obtain yellowish liquid; 3) taking out the reaction vessel, naturally cooling the reaction vessel, carrying out filtering toremove insolubles so as to obtain a clarified solution, and carrying out dialyzing treatment, so as to obtain an aqueous solution of the phosphorescent carbon quantum dots; and 4) subjecting the aqueous solution of the phosphorescent carbon quantum dots to freeze drying, thereby obtaining the target product. The phosphorescent carbon quantum dots disclosed by the invention are high in quantum yield and long in lives and are synthesized in one step without adding an additional matrix. The prepared carbon quantum dots can be excited by an ultraviolet light of 365 nm to generate phosphorescence,can also be excited by sunlight to generate phosphorescence and can be applied to the fields of anti-counterfeiting, information encryption and the like.