Research on the “tacit knowledge” is an important part of knowledge work in Chinese medicine. In this paper, based on literatures on the traditional Chinese medicine “tacit knowledge”, data retrieval is conducted from modern Chinese medicine book publication, literature database, summary and related “characteristic and the tacit knowledge” on TCM inheritance in analysis method, to further explore the old doctor of traditional Chinese medicine “tacit knowledge” explicit, transfer mechanism, and better inherit the academic thoughts and clinical experience to provide the advantageous basis.