A method and an apparatus for adding tokens in traffic shaping are provided. According to the method, a weight of each data stream is configured, and each data stream is added to corresponding token schedulers based on the weight of the each data stream. Based on a weight of each token scheduler, each token scheduler is sequentially added to corresponding token scheduler groups, and all the token scheduler groups are aggregated into a token scheduler of a total data stream. The token scheduler of the total data stream is added to a top token scheduler. Based on a preset cycle, a token is assigned to the token scheduler of the total data stream in the top token scheduler, and the assigned token is delivered to each token scheduler group or to a respective data stream.