The carrier of ethnic minority culture is not only the original music dissemination,but also because of its unique form of music, has a certain value in music, history, anthropology and other academic research, also has commercial development and economic value. At present,the status quo of the protection of minority music in China is not optimistic,this paper suggests two kinds of dynamic and static protection method,dynamic protection measures mainly is to allow more people to contact the original music of ethnic minorities, including the establishment of the corresponding disciplinary system,so that the minority music can access higher music institutions into primary and secondary school music curriculum,strengthen the music heritage protection mode. In the static protection,we can strengthen the construction of laws and regulations,improve the corresponding rules and regulations,and strengthen the construction of academic research and the corresponding data resource library to protect.