The invention discloses cigarette paper with low ignition tendency and a preparation method. The cigarette paper comprises common cigarette paper manufactured by a papermaking process; and a coating liquid film consisting of film forming agent, viscosity regulator and filler is printed on the inner surface of the common cigarette paper. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: (1) preparing the common cigarette paper of certain specification; (2) preparing the filler into 40 to 60 percent suspension, and stirring uniformly; (3) adding the viscosity regulator component into the (2) at normal temperature to prepare 2 to 4 mass percent aqueous solution, and stirring for 10 minutes; (4) adding the film forming agent component into the (3) at normal temperature to prepare 25 to 35 mass percent aqueous solution, and stirring for 20 minutes; and (5) adding the sizing material prepared in the (4) on the surface of the cigarette paper through a silk screen in certain interval by adopting a printing and coating mode. When the cigarette paper is burnt to a coated strip in the atmospheric environment, the cigarette has low extinguishing rate and even is not extinguished; and under the standard test condition, the filter paper of contact matrix has high extinguishing rate, and meanwhile, the cigarette paper has no obvious adverse effects on the cigarette smoke and the smoking quality.