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.
雅和俗是中國傳統美學中的一對重要讅美範疇，尚雅貶俗一直是傳統文人思想中根深蒂固的讅美觀唸。