Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for rapid preparation of an epidemic infectious bronchitis vaccine. An infectious clone of an infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) H120 vaccine strain is used as a skeleton carrier and an antigen gene in the skeleton carrier is replaced with a target antigen gene of an epidemic infectious bronchitis virus strain, to obtain a recombinant bronchitis virus. The target antigen gene is an S1 gene or an S gene. The S gene is one of the S gene fragments of the epidemic infectious bronchitis virus strain or a fusion gene composed of multiple S gene fragments. Furthermore, the target antigen gene and an N gene can be simultaneously replaced and a signal peptide region of the original S1 gene in the skeleton carrier is retained during the replacement.