Abstract: Although a tremendous amount of literature on sports has been witnessed published, there still exist a series of problems waiting to be solved, including the basic definition of sports, the core problems of sports science, the stages of sports history and the general development laws, which has led to the undesirable consequences of the insufficiency of systematic and scientific theoretical basis in China’s sports development, the pendulum phenomenon of sports policies, the sluggish development of the overall sports cause as well as the backwardness of sports industry. The paper analyzes several basic problems popular in sports theory researches and accordingly puts forward ground-breaking concepts for reference.

Key words: sports history, cultural morphology, development, stages of history