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Through the ages, hyperbole, as a kind of important figure of speech, is absolutely necessary in Chinese spoken and written language.After collecting many materials of Chinese hyperbole, from ancient time to today, and analyzing them deeply, we think that Chinese hyperbole is a language phenomenon which has a strong system, and the system can be promulgate out. In morphology, Chinese hyperbole can be divided as "common hyperbole" and "depend on other figure of speech" which may be metaphor, parallelism and so on. But we think that good hyperbole has it's certain criterion and appearance, that is, positive, negative and equal extent. The key of good hyperbole depends on whether the thing's nature and hyperbole character is consistent.Hyperbole's appearance has its certain language environment, and it is exclusive in scientific works.Hyperbole possesses peculiar aesthetic value that can create novel, beautiful image, emotion and loftiness, it also can create comic effect.The main reason why hyperbole appears is, besides imaginations which is an important mentality mechanism, the describer has certain emotion accumulation, and when it is expressed, the describer will feel comfortable in heart and there are some curiosity in the heart of the listeners and readers.