Differences between Olympic Sport and Chinese Traditional Sport

The Olympic sport and the Chinese traditional sport belong to different sports system, because they were produced under different social and cultural background. The study of their differences is of significance in understanding their connotation and in exploring the exchange and blend of them under the new historical conditions. It was indicated that the Chinese traditional exercise activities with its rich contents and of higher level, formed in the feudal agricultural society, which prolonged for thousands of years, have contributed much to the development of human sport and culture, but they were branded by the agricultural society. Olympic sport is the product of the further development of human civilization. Compared with the Chinese agriculture-type of sports culture, it is much different in outlook on value, theoretical understanding, exercise methods, management and equipments. And just because of these differences the opportunity for merging the Chinese traditional sport and the Olympic sport into a single whole is gestated.