Based on the sample survey data of 787 family farms in major provinces in China in 2017, this paper calculated their performance by data envelopment analysis (DEA), and studied the effects of intergenerational transmission of family farm operations and intergenerational transmission matching mode on farming performance through Tobit model and Ols model. The results show that: the intergenerational transmission between parent and child had a significant negative effect on the family farm performance, with motherson transmission having a worse performance than that of fatherson transmission. In the fatherson transmission, the family farm performance went down notably, but this rule did not applied to fatherdaughter transmission. From the perspective of the intergenerational transmission matching model, compared with the open matching model, the family farm performance of fit matching and active matching model is lower, while the family farm performance of forced matching model is not significantly different.