Abstract: Based on a comprehensive analysis of relevant research materials and policy texts, this article selects 1919 as the landmark node, and discusses the historical evolution of China’s sports thought in the past century. According to the characteristics of China’s sports thought development in the past century and the different historical background , this article divides it into five historical periods: the maturity of modern China’s sports thought, the development and transformation of modern China’s sports thought, the exploration and preliminary development of contemporary sports thought, the reform and comprehensive development of contemporary sports thought, and sports thought in the new era.The author believes, in the convergence and fusion of traditional sports in modern China and modern sports in the western, although there are differences among these sports ideologies, "sports powers country" and "sports saves country" are always the common ground of the debates, which also reflect the twists and turns of the modernization of China’s sports; the evolution and development of contemporary sports have provided the conditions for the emergence of different forms of sports thought, and imprinted the marks of different times.These sports thoughts with different cognitions based on sports practice in different periods are not only the witness of the development of contemporary China sports, but also the testimony of the general sports ideological worker’s concerning about sports business.

Key words: sports thought, historical background, evolution, characteristics, representative