Prestigious TCM scholars’ academic thought and clinical experience is the essence and carrier of TCM knowledge. Its methodology of academic inheritance has a fundamental and strategic position in TCM academic development. It can be roughly summarized as follows: learning inherited methods, traditional style inherited methods, clinical epidemiology inherited methods, animal experiments and drug discovery inherited methods, modern mathematics and information technology inherited methods. Its diverse inheritance way shows the transformation of Chinese medicine “experience” to “evidence” and can promote the development of TCM academy.