| （Sport Institute，Xi’an University of Technology，Xi’an 710048，China） Abstract: The authors raised several queries about relevant conclusions drawn and the methodology used in the ar-ticle of Queries about the “theory of the differences between Chinese and western sports cultures”, and put forward the following opinions：1) although from the perspective of cultural origin sports are basic factors in human cultures, the forms of presentation of Chinese and western cultures are different; 2) at present, the differences between Chi-nese and western sports are caused by the development of contradiction between the specificity of the path of na-tional culture and the universality of the pattern of cultural development; 3) for going against the abuse of the his-torical view of cultural form in the comparative study of Chinese and western sports cultures, we must adhere to the historical view of materialism.
Key words: Chinese and western sports cultures；historical view of cultural form；social form；methodology |
