The research on the differences between Chinese and western sports can be summarized as the following two aspects: First, based on the theory of three levels of culture, compare the ideological and theoretical levels of Chinese and western sports. Some people think that there are significant differences between Chinese and western sports in philosophy, medical basis and aesthetic concept. Traditional sports in China are rooted in the theory of "harmony between man and nature", yin and yang, gossip and five elements, while western sports are formed and developed under the guidance of western philosophy, emphasizing externality, analysis and struggle with nature. The holistic view of traditional Chinese medicine attaches importance to the unity of human body and the harmony of nature, with certain experience, intuition and fuzziness. Western physical education is a comprehensive application of scientific experiment, anatomy, physiology and modern medicine. Traditional sports in China emphasize the beauty of rhythm, rhythm, charm, connotation and harmony, and the beauty of obscurity, abstraction and implication, while the beauty of masculinity and speed in western sports emphasizes external beauty and formal beauty. The second is to compare the sports nature of Chinese and western sports as a whole. For example, Li Liyan believes that oriental sports, represented by traditional sports in China, is philosophical sports, and its essence is to grasp the universe; Western sports is a kind of physical sports, the essence of which is to show life. * * * * * 2 The intersection of Chinese and western sports * * * * * Oriental sports and western sports are the same sports culture of human beings and the result of human interaction. As the representative of oriental sports, China's traditional sports were bred by the civilizations of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, while western modern sports were the product of British and American culture and the result of the development of sports culture in ancient Greece, Italy and Rome. At present, world cultures are increasingly converging in mutual opening and communication, and Chinese and western sports are also gradually merging. Traditional sports in China existed and developed under the feudal system, and the self-sufficient natural economic environment formed a relatively independent and isolated sports culture, which was closed, ethical, folk-custom, religious and military. Western modern sports exist and develop to adapt to the mode of production in modern society, showing the development trend of competitiveness, popularization, personalization and entertainment. These two kinds of sports, which originated and developed in different times, gradually eliminated the gap after human beings entered the modern society. After the Opium War, traditional sports in China began to conflict and blend with western sports in passive and active, conscious and unconscious ways. Nowadays, western sports such as track and field, swimming and football have become the main contents of Chinese sports, and the concept of equal competition in western sports has also deeply influenced Chinese sports (including Chinese traditional sports). A history of modern sports in China is actually a history of mutual exclusion, mutual penetration and mutual integration between Chinese and Western sports. China's traditional martial arts absorbed western sports and formed Sanshou competition, qigong introduced modern scientific theory, and dragon boat and kite gave modern people spiritual needs. These traditional events in China have become competitions and activities suitable for both China and the West, and are gradually accepted and recognized by westerners. This shows the trend of gradual integration of Chinese and western sports. Some researchers pointed out that western sports concepts such as peace and friendship, equal and fair competition, mass sports and participation were gradually absorbed by traditional sports in China. The overall concept of sports, which consists of China's traditional sports ethics, health and longevity, natural health preservation, the relationship between form and spirit, the relationship between motion and static, and the relationship between man and nature, is also accepted by western sports to varying degrees. Chinese and western sports are also converging in sports forms, methods and means. Western wrestling, weightlifting and boxing were accepted by China, and tennis and rugby were also introduced.