The invention discloses a method for promoting brown adipose tissue differentiation through SFRP4 and an application. The method comprises treating precursor adipose cells for differentiation by usingSFRP4 active proteins (with different concentrations of 0, 1, 10, 100ng/mL), when the cells grow to 80%, culturing with a cell differentiation induction culture medium I until the cells are fused, adding an induction culture medium II into the cells, inducing for 2-8 days, and replacing the culture medium in the culture bottle with an induction culture medium III, inducing for 2-8 days, observingunder a microscope, after dyeing with oil red O, observing under the microscope again, collecting cells with different differentiation days, extracting total RNA of the cells, detecting expression levels of marker genes UCP-1 and SFRP4 of brown adipose cells by using a real-time quantitative PCR analysis technology after the purity and integrity of the RNA are detected to be qualified, and finally, carrying out statistical analysis. The experimental process is uniform in sampling, and the result reliability is high.