以民族传统体育文化为主线，从认知、连接与团结的宏观递进关系入手，探寻铸牢中华民族共同体意识的理论机制。认为：(1)民族传统体育的本质是通过身体实践的仪式化操演表征族群记忆。追求表征“共同价值”的国族团结力量、呈现人类文明新形态是民族传统体育与铸牢中华民族共同体意识的未来指向。(2)民族传统体育可整合中华民族共同体的身份认同意识，提供一种包含个体、群体和国族之间文化和情感有机连接的机制，通过重叠共识与利益共享为铸牢中华民族共同体意识提供实践指向，同时为实现由“求同存异”到“聚同化异”的共同体建构提供原初动力和反馈机制。(3)民族传统体育通过符号化的信息传递和仪式化的文化传播，促使共同体团结机制建立，群体文化形式上的认同与个体行动上的具身参与是铸牢共同体意识的基础；民族传统体育具有“事件团结”的连接机制，能触动与激活共同体成员的一致行动和情感认知，促使中华民族共同体由“想象团结”走向具象化的“真实团结”；民族传统体育与铸牢中华民族共同体意识生成机理的核心在于文化上的认同和政治意识上的自觉，遵循从文化共同体、社会共同体到中华民族共同体的整体递进过程。

Starting from the Chinese traditional sports and drawing on a progressive perspective that consists of cognition, connection and solidarity, the attempts is made to clarify the mechanism in theoretical in heightening the sense of community for the Chinese nation. It is suggested that:(1) The Chinese traditional sports functioned as the representation of ethnic memory by the way of ritualized bodily performative in essential, and such mechanism would toward the national solidarity that would present the "collective value" and take on a new form of human civilization.(2) Served as connective mechanism in cultural and emotional among individuals, groups and nation,the Chinese traditional sports could integrate the sense of identity and provide practical guidance for heightening the sense of community through overlapping consensus and shared interests, while provided the primitive impetus and feedback mechanism for the transformation of the way of community construction from "seeking common ground" to "shelving and narrowing differences".(3) Drew on the symbolized information dissemination and ritualized cultural communication, the Chinese traditional sports promoted the forming of solidarity within community, which found its base in the identity in collective culture and the embodied involvement in individual activity; also, the Chinese traditional sports had an internal value for being an "event-solidarity" mechanism that was able to activate the accordant bahaviour and affection cognitive within community members, and transformed the Chinese nation from an "imaginary solidarity" to "authentic" ones. In short, the core of heightening the sense of community for the Chinese nation with its traditional sports as the vehicle laid in the identity culturally and the conscious politically, with adhering to the holistic progressive from cultural community to social community and to the Chinese nation in ultimate.