What are the differences between Eastern and Western sports culture?

Differences in the background of Chinese and Western sports culture

Chinese sports culture is a typical continental culture, with the whole Chinese traditional culture as the background; Western sports culture is a typical maritime culture, which takes the whole Western culture as the background.

Differences in the ideological basis of Chinese and Western sports culture

Guided by the ancient philosophy of simple materialism, which emphasizes the whole and is based on the mind; based on natural science, which focuses on decomposition and is based on the body.

Differences in the goals pursued by Chinese and Western sports cultures

The purpose of sports:

China manifests itself in the cultivation of body and mind and internal perfection of the main body of the sport, and the achievement of physical and mental peace through sports activities; while the West manifests itself in the perfection of the technology and skills of the object of the sport, and the realization of physical and mental transcendence in the sport continuously.

Sport according to:

China shows the philosophical thought of "unity of heaven and man", focusing on fitness, health, meaning through the external physical exercise to achieve the inner spiritual cultivation, both internal and external practice, form and spirit; Western sports show the unity of philosophy and natural science, in sports competitions to defeat their opponents to obtain the laurels, to win the honor.

Sport form:

Chinese performance for the up and down, left and right together, inside and outside the unity of the martial arts, chess and other fitness activities, to the exclusion of fierce rivalry and competition, the exercise method to imitate the animal movements based on the Western performance of the perfection of the technology, mainly in track and field, gymnastics, the game shows a strong confrontation.

Exercise load:

China seeks to control the load to a certain range, does not advocate the movement caused by balance disorders; the West adopts the concept of physical quantities change.

Exercise results:

China seeks to achieve self-fulfillment and perfection as its ultimate goal; the West uses physical quantities as the ultimate goal of either performance evaluation or victory or defeat in a competition.

The difference between Chinese and Western sports culture values

China, through the external physical activities that have the nature of dependence on the combination of static and dynamic, to improve the inner spirit and inner cultivation of people, if the emphasis on tangible physical activities to contribute to the intangible sublimation of the spirit, to achieve the shaping of an ideal personality; the West pursues faster, higher, stronger, and more aggressive and extreme: emphasizing that the intuitive human performance is the most important factor in the development of the human being. The performance of the kind of intuitive touchable "force" and "beauty" emphasizes the external movement of the body, focusing on the appearance of proportionality and fitness.