Abstract: Nowadays, sports competition is a bridge of friendship that eliminates national estrangement and misunderstanding and promotes mutual understanding and communication among people all over the world. Then, how can the competitive and ruthless sports competition be civilized? The so-called civilized competition, on the one hand, can effectively control the bad behavior such as the cathartic violence of the daredevil through the competition rules, on the other hand, can express the beautiful emotion such as friendship and fairness through the athletes' display of sportsmanship and civilized manners. The study found that the ancient human race game, is buried rules conventions of civilized inherent gene of the competition, with the change of human's production mode, social groups emotional change, life style and behavior can lead to the development of sports competition increasingly towards civilized behavior, the industrial revolution is to produce a qualitative change in the history of accumulation, the logo for the establishment of lexical competition rules and the spirit of fair play is generally established, mapping the industrial economy era people value idea and the emotion level of progress This is a process of historical accumulation. This paper aims to trace the historical reasons for the formation of the modern sports civilization competition system and ethos along the research path of history, and then provide theoretical enlightenment for the governance of sports competition and the construction of competition discipline.

Key words: economic form, game characteristics, emotional mode, violence control, civilized competition.