The invention provides a method for fermenting a vinegar by adding a starter propagation Chinese herbal medicine. The method comprises the following steps: (1) preparing a rhizoma polygonati extracting solution and red-knees herb extracting solution; (2) washing and soaking rice, performing filtration, cooking rice to be free from white cores, spreading for cooling, adding a koji mould spore suspension and the rhizoma polygonati extracting solution, performing stacking cultivation, and then performing ventilating cultivation to obtain rhizoma polygonati koji; (3) activating a brewer's yeast; (4) washing and soaking sticky rice, performing filtration, cooking sticky rice to be free from white cores, adding the rhizoma polygonati koji and an activated brewer's yeast suspension, performing fermentation till the alcoholic degree is stable, performing filtration, and performing wine boiling to obtain a fermented wine; and (5) adding the red-knees herb extracting solution into the fermentedwine, adding water to dilute the fermented wine, performing pasteurization, performing cooling, then adding an activated acetic bacteria suspension, charging into a fermentation tank, performing fermentation under stirring and ventilating conditions till the acidity no longer rises, performing filtration, and performing blending and disinfection to obtain the starter propagation Chinese herbal medicine. By adoption of the method, the vinegar fermentation production efficiency and the flavor of the vinegar are improved, and the health value of the vinegar is also improved.