Abstract: Starting from the Chinese traditional sports and drawing on a progressive perspective that consists of cognition, connection and solidarity, the attempts is made to clarify the mechanism in theoretical in heightening the sense of community for the Chinese nation. It is suggested that: ① The Chinese traditional sports functioned as the representation of ethnic memory by the way of ritualized bodily performative in essential, and such mechanism would toward the national solidarity that would present the "collective value" and take on a new form of human civilization. ② Served as connective mechanism in cultural and emotional among individuals, groups and nation, the Chinese traditional sports could integrate the sense of identity and provide practical guidance for heightening the sense of community through overlapping consensus and shared interests, while provided the primitive impetus and feedback mechanism for the transformation of the way of community construction from "seeking common ground" to "shelving and narrowing differences". ③ Drew on the symbolized information dissemination and ritualized cultural communication, the Chinese traditional sports promoted the forming of solidarity within community, which found its base in the identity in collective culture and the embodied involvement in individual activity; also, the Chinese traditional sports had an internal value for being an "event-solidarity" mechanism that was able to activate the accordant bahaviour and affection cognitive within community members, and transformed the Chinese nation from an "imaginary solidarity" to "authentic" ones. In short, the core of heightening the sense of community for the Chinese nation with its traditional sports as the vehicle laid in the identity culturally and the conscious politically, with adhering to the holistic progressive from cultural community to social community and to the Chinese nation in ultimate.