The research on Chinese traditional sports culture has experienced a long period of system constructionand academic accumulation, and in order to be able to better grasp its development trend, it is now comprehensivelysorted out and summarized. Using CiteSpace (version 6.1.6) visualization and analysis software, the researchresults in the field of traditional Chinese sports culture were mined and interpreted by using 1,446 core documentsabout traditional Chinese sports culture in CNKI from 1992 to 2023. The study found that the overall volume ofresearch publications in the field of Chinese traditional sports and culture shows a gradual increase and stabilizationtrend, showing the characteristics of policy leadership. The cooperation between research authors is not intensive,and the research institutions show the trend of “big dispersion and small aggregation”, and the thematic researchcenters around “sportsmanship” and “traditional sports”, The theme of the research centers around “sportsmanship”,“traditional sports”, “cultural confidence” and so on. At present, the research on Chinese traditional sports culture isdeveloping steadily, and the research direction is diversified. In the future, we should enhance the communicationand collaboration between research authors and institutions, and play the leading role of professional institutions andpolicies, so as to promote the research content to be more comprehensive and in-depth.