Yao Jianzong

　　School of Law, Jilin University

　　Abstract:Legal practice comprises the normative activities of constructing and maintaining social order with the aim of achieving equity and justice. In terms of content, it can be divided into three categories: intellectual legal practice, normative legal practice, and applied legal practice. As an important factor supporting legal practice, legal theory has a complex interactive relationship with legal practice. The effect of legal theory on legal practice is realized through the intermediary, carrier and bridging functions of the rationality, wisdom and ideas of legal practice. Developing the concept of the ideal legal life is the inherent mission and method of legal practice thought.

　　Keywords: legal practice, rationality, wisdom and ideas of legal practice, legal practice thinking, methods of legal practice thinking, Chinese context