The invention relates to the field of seismic exploration, in particular to a surface wave pressing method which comprises the steps of: carrying out Hilbert conversion on single-component seismic signals; forming a plurality of signals by using the signals after Hilbert conversion; computing corresponding elliptical polarizability according to the signals; and pressing according to the obtained elliptical polarizability to obtain pressed signals. By adopting the surface wave pressing method of the invention in a theoretical simulation test, Rayleigh surface waves after instant polarization filtering can be well attenuated, and reflected waves are obvious; generally indicated by the application effect of outdoor actual data, by adopting the surface wave pressing method of the invention, the energy of surface waves can be well pressed and the pressed surface waves can better keep the true amplitude of a seismic record.