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 intergenerational transmission of family farm operations and intergenerational transmission matching mode on farming performance through Tobit model and Ols model. The results show that: the intergenerational transmission between parent and child had a significant negative effect on the family farm performance, with motherson transmission having a worse performance than that of fatherson transmission. In the fatherson transmission, the family farm performance went down notably, but this rule did not applied to fatherdaughter transmission. From the perspective of the intergenerational 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.