The invention relates to the technical field of drug quality control and in particular relates to a quality control reference substance for antelope's horn tablets for common cold. The retention time of chlorogenic acid, liquiritin, rhamnosylvitexin, isorhamnetin-3-O-neohesperidin, forsythoside A, forsythin and arctiin is respectively 9.954, 38.591, 39.767, 43.191, 43.807, 60.715 and 62.065 minutes, the separation degree of each component from the adjacent peak is higher than 1.5, and the numbers of theoretical plates are respectively 10940, 49640, 22085, 257778, 205587, 376909 and 499904. According to the reference substance, multiple Chinese patent medicines and traditional Chinese medicinal materials can be qualitatively, semi-quantitatively and quantitatively researched, and the reference substance has the characteristics of convenience, rapidness, accuracy and high adaptability and has high application potentials.