Most areas of intangible cultural heritage, such as oral literature, folk painting, performing arts, handicrafts, folk knowledge and so on. Generally, it is passed down from generation to generation, continued and developed through oral transmission by inheritors. In these fields, inheritors are important carriers and disseminators of intangible cultural heritage. With superhuman wisdom and spirituality, they store, master and carry the cultural traditions and exquisite skills related to intangible cultural heritage. They are not only the living treasure house of intangible cultural heritage, but also the "baton" and representatives of intangible cultural heritage in the "relay race" handed down from generation to generation. Heirs can be heirs of family heritage or social heritage. At least in the categories of oral literature, folk art, handicrafts and folk knowledge mentioned above, the inheritance function of inheritors is very obvious. Of course, it is not limited to these categories. Because these fields are more suitable for personal skills and personalized creation. Although the environment plays a decisive role in the inheritor's achievements (there is a tradition of inheritance at home, the guidance and teaching of the master, and so on). ), the superhuman ability and personality of the parties, such as memorizing extensive knowledge, intelligence, ingenuity and unique intelligence, are also more easily highlighted in these fields.

In a word, the cultural inheritance in these fields is not a single extension or shift of the original, but both attenuation and increment, and cultural accumulation is realized through innovation. Accumulation is the result of inheritance, and the core of accumulation is the innovation of inheritors.

Ma Shengde, inspector of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Department of the Ministry of Culture of China, announced at the regular press conference of the Ministry of Culture on March 30, 20 16; From 20 16, the subsidy standard for the national 1986 national intangible heritage inheritors has been raised to 20,000 yuan per person per year.

It is understood that since 2008, the central government has begun to subsidize national representative inheritors to carry out learning activities. The subsidy standard is 0.8 million yuan per person per year, and the subsidy standard of 20 1 1 year is raised to 1 10,000 yuan.