The Transition of Chinese Classical Concept of Body: Based on the Evolution of Pre-modern Chinese Sport

During the development of ancient Chinese sports, the Confucian, Taoist and Chinese Traditional Medicine's concepts towards body won the reasonable development space for ritual sports activities, recreational sports activities and traditional health promoting sports activities. At the same time, the transition of these three body-thinking also retained the developing opportunities for the antagonistic sports activities like polo. In the process of modern sports development in China, the spread of the Western concept of physical body created a favorable knowledge environment for the development of modern Western sports.However when the modern gymnastics entered the people's physical practice, Confucian body view also played an important role.With the introduction of naturalism and evolutionism, the traditional body view and the western modern body view overlapped and echoed, and finally led to the western modern sports completely rooted and blossomed in China.