Abstract: It is generally recognized that Practice Aesthetics originated from the first “Aesthetics Discussion” popular in 1950’s and 1960’s. However, in the following seven years of discussion, the sense of “practice” experienced a process of changing. Essentially, it was not until 1960’s the concept of practice began to gain a core position in the theory of Zhu Guangqian and Li Zehou, which shows two different dimensions of practice, “the formation of inner spirit” and “the production of external materials ”. Their views had a certain degree of failure and confusion because of a common thinking paradigm of the thought circle that time, “Reflection Theory of De-subjectivity. With most people clinging to “Beauty is an objective existence independent from human beings” or “Art is a reflection of ideology”, the new practice-centered aesthetic research pattern has not been set up.

Key words: practice, Reflection Theory of De-subjectivity, discussion on aesthetics, Li Zehou, Zhu Guangqian