In reality ,sport is a most controversial topic in public context while it is also one of the least understood phenomena .The public's cognition of sports makes its nature obvious on "the fitness level",but it's not the case .Based on the logic analysis of the re-search status of sports essence at home and abroad and through two research ideas :from divinity to humanity and society ;from methods to objective and the logic verification of sociality ,this paper reviews on the development of Chinese and western sports cog-nition and reaches the conclusion that different cognition of Chinese and w...