A steam cracking method comprises the following steps: mixing a liquid cracking raw material with water steam, heating the above obtained cracking raw material mixture in a convection section to an across temperature, adding the heated cracking raw material mixture into a radiant section, carrying out a cracking reaction, injecting the above obtained cracking reaction product into a quenching apparatus, and cooling and separating, wherein the method also comprises a step that a material flow containing olefin is added at the inlet and/or outlet of the radiant section, and the material flow containing olefin is a mixture containing heated olefin and hydrogen, or a mixture containing the heated olefin, hydrogen and the water steam. The method allows olefin to be introduced at the outlet and/or inlet of the radiant section, so coking generated in the convection section of a cracking furnace and in the quenching apparatus does not appear, the effective utilization of heat of high temperature cracking products from the radiant section can be realized, and the butadiene yield is improved.