The present invention provides a method and system for channel status information feedback based on a hierarchical codebook, the method comprising steps of: generating a hierarchical codebook; configuring the generated hierarchical codebook to a transmit end and a receive end, respectively; and feeding back channel state information from the receive end to the transmit end based on the hierarchical codebook, wherein the step of generating a hierarchical codebook further comprises the following steps: i) dividing each level of codeword in a to-be-generated codebook into a plurality of segments based on a basic codebook; ii) a module configured to generate each level of codeword in a first stage, wherein the each level of codeword is selected from the basic codebook; and iii) generating each level of codeword in other stages, wherein the each level of codeword is selected a pre-provided training sample matrix. And the feeding back the channel status information from the receiving end to the transmitting end based on the hierarchical codebook further comprises using a first bit and a second bit of the feedback bits to represent a signaling for performing tree search to the hierarchical codebook.