appreciating elegance and belittling popularity

Elegance and popularity is a couple of momentous criteria in Chinese traditional aesthetics. The custom of appreciating elegance and belittling popularity was rooted deeply into the thought of the traditional literati all along.
雅和俗是中國傳統(tǒng)美學中的一對重要審美范疇，尚雅貶俗一直是傳統(tǒng)文人思想中根深蒂固的審美觀念。