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What are the differences between Eastern and Western sports culture?

First, the three-level theory of culture is used as the basic idea to compare the ideological and theoretical aspects of Chinese and Western sports. There are significant differences between Chinese and Western sports in terms of philosophical thought, medical foundation, and aesthetic concepts. Chinese traditional sports are rooted in the "unity of man and heaven", yin and yang, gossip, five elements theory, etc., while the Western sports in Western philosophy, heavy on the external, analytical, heavy struggle with nature and other concepts under the guidance of the formation and development; Chinese medicine holistic view of the human body's own unity and the harmony of the natural world, with a certain experience, intuition, fuzzy nature, Western sports are scientific experiments, anatomical and physical analysis of the human body. Western sports is the comprehensive use of scientific experimentation, anatomy, physiology, modern medicine, etc.; traditional Chinese sports focus on rhythm, rhyme, rhyme, connotation, harmony and beauty, and heavy haziness, abstraction, implicit beauty, Western sports masculine strength, the beauty of speed, and heavy external, physical beauty. 

The second is an overall comparison of the nature of sports between Chinese and Western sports. Chinese traditional sports as the representative of the Eastern sports is a philosophical sports, the essence of the grasp of the universe; Western sports is a physical sports, the essence of the show of life.