The invention relates to a hydrogenation method of C4 unsaturated hydrocarbon. According to the method, by the aid of a fixed bed reactor, a nickel saturated hydrogenation catalyst is reduced outsidea hydrogenation reactor at the temperature of 350-500 DEG C, air is led in to passivate the catalyst, the passivated catalyst is reduced in the reactor by hydrogen at the temperature of 120-200 DEG C,the C4 unsaturated hydrocarbon is added, alkyne and diolefin in the C4 unsaturated hydrocarbon are hydrogenated into corresponding alkane, the nickel saturated hydrogenation catalyst comprises activecomponents and silicon oxide-aluminum oxide composition, and the active components include molybdenum, nickel , cobalt and magnesium. Reaction process conditions include that inlet temperature of thereactor is 30-55 DEG C, reaction pressure is 1.0-4.5MPa, liquid volume per hour is 1.5-4.5h<-1>, and the volume ratio of hydrogen to oil is (120-450):1. According to the hydrogenation method of theC4 unsaturated hydrocarbon, the catalyst is good in hydrogenation activity, good in gelatine and water resistance and high in sulfur resistance.