The characteristics of moxibustion of the representative successors of each acupuncture and moxibustion school were analyzed, and the application and inheritance of moxibustion in Bagui acupuncture and moxibustion school, Chengjiang acupuncture and moxibustion school, Lu 's acupuncture and moxibustion school and Golden Needle Plum Blossom acupuncture and moxibustion school were summarized. As a result, the Bagui acupuncture and moxibustion school innovated moxibustion treatment forms and moxibustionmethods, expanding moxibustion indications; the Chengjiang acupuncture and moxibustion school quantitatively popularized direct moxibustion, emphasizing the application of health-care moxibustion; the Lu 's acupuncture and moxibustion school enriched material-separated moxibustion and basic research of moxibustion methods, and proposed dog days moxibustion therapy; the Golden Needle Plum Blossom acupuncture and moxibustion school proposed the "heat syndrome can also be treated with moxibustion" and "visceral moxibustion method", and treated difficult diseases with moxibustion and innovated moxibustion tools.