Abstract: Amidst the strategic convergence of China’s sports powerhouse and cultural powerhouse agendas, sports historiography positioned as a pivotal nexus for implementing these dual national priorities-must develop an autonomous epistemological framework to address urgent sociocultural demands. This study identifies the discipline’s current challenges as rooted in the marginalization of sportive skills, the ontological foundation of athletic practice and knowledge production. Such oversight manifests in three critical gaps: 1) Fragmented historical narratives of sport’s endogenous evolution; 2) an epistemological divide between Dao (theoretical principles) and Shu (applied techniques) in disciplinary praxis; 3) systemic obstacles in codifying sports historiography’s unique knowledge architecture. Proposing an embodied paradigm as resolution, the analysis reconceptualizes corporeality within historiographical inquiry, arguing for a research paradigm anchored in kinetic embodiment-where the sporting body’s skill-laden history becomes the locus of epistemic authority. The study culminates in a novel tripartite evidentiary synthesis, systematically integrating textual sources, material artifacts, and sportive skills. This methodology’s theoretical rationale, contextual adaptability, and operational protocols are rigorously examined, positioning sports historiography as both a custodian of national sporting heritage and a catalyst for transcivilizational dialogue.