The invention relates to a method for controlling quality of a liquorice medicinal material and a liquorice preparation. The method concretely relates to the step of simultaneously determining the content of the liquorice medicinal material and the content of six main active ingredients, namely liquiritin, isoliquiritin, liquiritigenin, isoliquiritigenin, glycyrrhizic acid and glycyrrhetinic acid in the liquorice preparation by utilizing a high performance liquid chromatography. A new method for controlling the quality of the liquorice and the liquorice preparation is established and the six main active ingredients, namely liquiritin, isoliquiritin, liquiritigenin, isoliquiritigenin, glycyrrhizic acid and glycyrrhetinic acid are quantitatively determined simultaneously by utilizing the high performance liquid chromatography. Confirmed by methodological investigation and test, the method is simple and convenient, correct in result and good in reproducibility, the defect of the existing quality control is overcome, and the quality control on the liquorice and the liquorice preparation is perfect and scientific.