Abstract: The Tang Dynasty is the heyday of Chinese feudal society and its sports integrates the excellent cultures of all ethnic groups of China, enabling it to become a bright star in Chinese sports history. The paper, by taking the sports of the Tang Dynasty as the research sample, explores the relationship of sports and social development in the Tang Dynasty, and analyzes the cultural background of Tang's sports and the reasons for the prosperity of sports then. The purpose of this paper is to provide references for handling the relationship between foreign and local cultures, the relationship between western competitive sports and traditional Chinese sports and for spreading Chinese culture and booming Chinese sports.

Key words: the Tang Dynasty, sports, conflict, fusion