曲高和寡 | qǔ gāo hè guǎ | difficult songs find few singers (idiom) / highbrow | |
庶民 | shù mín | the multitude of common people (in highbrow literature) / plebeian | |
下里巴人 | xià lǐ bā rén | folk songs of the state of Chu 楚國|楚国[Chu3 guo2] / popular art forms (cf. 陽春白雪|阳春白雪[yang2 chun1 bai2 xue3], highbrow art forms) | |
阳春白雪 | yáng chūn bái xuě | melodies of the elite in the state of Chu 楚國|楚国[Chu3 guo2] / highbrow art and literature |