Abstract: Jiang Kongyang is a famous contemporary aesthetician in China,an outstanding representative of practical aesthetics. His aesthetic thoughts are not only influenced by Marx's aesthetics and modern Western aesthetics, but also by the traditional Chinese aesthetic thoughts. On the basis of integrating the essence of Chinese and Western aesthetic thoughts,Jiang Kongyang developed the contemporary Chinese aesthetics and established the practice-creation aesthetics, which takes the aesthetic relationship between human beings and reality as the starting point, human practice as the logical premise, and beauty being the process of cumulative emergence as the fundamental characteristics. At the same time, Jiang Kongyang's aesthetics always looks at the practice of life and cares for the living experience of people. His aesthetic thoughts finally fall on the existence and development of human beings. It shows the value of human dignity and the pursuit of the free development of human beings, and finally condenses into a unique aesthetics theory of life.

Key words: Jiang Kongyang, aesthetic relation, cumulative emergence, practice-creation aesthetics, aesthetics theory of life