The invention discloses a preparation method of fluorescent composite whitened attapulgite, which is characterized by comprising the following steps: (1) after pulverizing attapulgite, screening, adding water to prepare a disperse 
system with a certain concentration, stirring, standing for some time, taking the supernatant suspension, carrying out centrifugal 
dewatering on the supernatant suspension, and 
drying at certain temperature to obtain purified attapulgite; (2) preparing the purified attapulgite into a dispersion, dropwisely adding a 
silane coupling agent while stirring, heating to react for some time, filtering, washing, 
drying, 
grinding and screening to obtain modified attapulgite; and (3) carrying out composite reaction on the modified attapulgite with a 
melamine-
formaldehyde polycondensate and a water-soluble 
fluorescent whitening agent VBL to obtain the fluorescent whitened attapulgite. The attapulgite surface is modified by the 
silane coupling agent, thereby enhancing the 
dispersity of the attapulgite and the 
coupling action with resin; and the compound obtained by reacting the 
melamine-
formaldehyde resin with the fluorescent whitening agent is compounded onto the attapulgite surface under the coupling action, thereby effectively enhancing the fixation action of the fluorescent whitening agent on the attapulgite surface and achieving the effect of whitening the attapulgite.