The invention relates to the field of high molecular material synthesis, in particular to a preparation method of polyphenylene sulfide. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: adding Na2S.9H2O, N-methyl pyrrolidone and a reaction assistant into a polymerization kettle, supplying nitrogen to replace air, then heating to 180 DEG C for dehydration at a dehydration rate of 80-95%, adding an N-methylpyrrolidine solution containing p-dichlorobenzene into a dehydrated system in Step (1) for reaction for 3-8h at 190-230 DEG C, after the reaction finishes, obtaining a size mixture, filtering the size mixture, adding a filter cake into boiled pure water, stirring, washing, and performing 90Hz ultrasonic treatment for 15-30min, repeatedly washing for 2-3 times, and obtaining PPS (polyphenylene sulfide) resin after drying. The method has the advantageous effects that the product hue can be obviously improved since sodium thiosulfate is added, even a water content of the system is higher (the dehydration rate is 80%) and the reaction temperature is higher, and the ultrasonic washing can effectively remove inorganic salt impurities included due to macromolecular chain bending and winding in a reaction process.