The invention relates to a nanoscale lamellar rare-earth hydroxide functional material and a preparation method thereof. According to the invention, the characteristic that metal ions are uniformly distributed in a lamellar rare-earth hydroxide laminate is utilized, rare-earth metal ions with similar radiuses are selected for carrying out isomorphous substitution, and a polyethyleneimine synthesis method is adopted for preparing the lamellar compound rare-earth hydroxide with the chemical formula of being RE2(OH)5Cl nH2O. Dimension of the prepared rare-earth hydroxide can be adjusted within the range from nanometer to micrometer, and isomorphous substitution by virtue of different rare-earth ions is carried out, thus a product can have a bright fluorescent light (blue light to near infrared light) with adjustable emission wavelength. According to the invention, a compound lamellar optical functional material system with uniform composition, adjustable dimension, good crystallinity, laminate rare earth ions which can be doped and exchangeable interlayer anions is constructed, and the preparation method is simple, practicable, rapid and convenient.