"雅"原本也是一种"俗",统治者的提倡与正统儒者的推崇,才有了雅与俗的分野与对峙,尚雅鄙俗也就成了官方文化与正统儒者在雅俗关系上的基本立场,带有鲜明的意识形态性"俗"的原始含义是"风俗",即某一地区由习惯形成的特定的生活方式。

The debates over elegance and commonplace has been a recurrent theme in the history of the Chinese culture.It is worth noticing that the content of elegance and commonplace changes with the time.Since the beginning of this decade,the relation between the two has become a new focus in the perspective of Chinese culture.Careful analyses of elegance and commonplace in traditional culture may shed light on construction of culture today.