Abstract: With the rapid advancement of globalization in the 21st century, the inheritance and protection of traditional sport, part of traditional culture, have drawn extensive attention from government departments, social organizations, and scientific research institutions. People of different nationalities, who are both the creators and owners of culture, have failed to play their due role in the cultural inheritance and protection of traditional sports, thus losing their proper position. The missing subject is a result of the changes in people's lifestyles in the new era. The protection of the external power-based object is likely to cause cultural misreading, and be easily influenced by policies and economy. Thus resuming the status of cultural subject has become a prerequisite for the sustainable development of traditional national sports in the new era. Returning to the daily life of cultural subject and satisfying the realistic needs of their survival and development are the fundamental way to realize the sustainable development of traditional national sports.

Key words: traditional national sports, sports subject, sports culture