Starting from the Song Dynasty, Hechuan Xiayan inkstone carving art has been 500 years of history. Once known as one of “Bayu three Ming Yan” and “Chinese ten Ming Yan”, Hechuan Xiayan is Chongqing municipal traditional skills of the intangible cultural heritage, but the heritage protection is now facing many difficulties. This paper analyzes the production protection direction selection of traditional arts “intangible cultural heritage”. Combining the history and reality of the traditional skills, analyzing the existing questions and reasons of inheritance protection of Hechuan Xiayan “intangible cultural heritage”, the authors put forward some countermeasures.