The invention relates to a nitrogen-sulfur co-doped carbon quantum dot fluorescent probe for cysteine detection and preparation and application thereof. The preparation method comprises the followingsteps of: (1) uniformly mixing ethylenediamine, deionized water and DTNB at room temperature to obtain a mixed solution, 2) setting the temperature of the mixed solution in a high-pressure kettle to be 160-220 DEG C, and performing carbonization treatment to obtain a carbonization treatment solution, 3) filtering, concentrating, purifying by silica gel column chromatography and drying the carbonization treatment solution in sequence to obtain N, S-CQDs, 4) preparing N, S-CQDs into an N, S-CQDs solution, and 5) uniformly mixing the N, S-CQDs solution with a palladium source to obtain Pd<2+>/N,S-CQDs. The Pd<2+>/N, S-CQDs are used for detecting cysteine in a water sample. Compared with the prior art, the fluorescent probe has the advantages of being simple in preparation method, high in sensitivity, good in reproducibility and the like, meanwhile, the fluorescent probe shows high selectivity on cysteine, interference of other metal ions or amino acid substances on detection can be effectively reduced, and the detection result has high reliability.