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.
雅和俗是中国传统美学中的一对重要审美范畴，尚雅贬俗一直是传统文人思想中根深蒂固的审美观念。