Abstract: As man’s most fundamental activity for survival, practice can be classified into three types from the angle of how man han dles his relationships with nature, society and other fellow beings: the practice of material production, the practice of spiri tual production,and the practice of language acquisition. These three types of practice are in essence of an aesthetic nature, i. e. when they become a kink of free practice, they can change into an aes thetic activity , or a practice containi ng aesthetic activities. However, an aesthetic activity is after all, in its puresense, one of spiri tual production, which manifes ts most clearly all the features of spiritual production, and distinguishesi tself wi th its striking image, emotion and superutility from other kinds of spriri tul productions as science, morality, religion, etc. whose features are mainly of an artistic nature.

Key words: types of practice, aesthetic activity