The synonym of "Yangchun Baixue" is "high and low-key music"

High-quality music and low-key music: The melody is high and profound, and few people can sing along. Old friends are rare. Nowadays, metaphorical remarks or works are not popular, and few people can understand them. From "Asking the King of Chu" written by Chu and Song Yu during the Warring States Period: "The music is as high as it is, and the harmony is as low as it is." This means that the more profound the melody, the fewer people can sing along. The original metaphor is that a close friend is rare. Later, "highbrow" was used to describe speech or works that were not popular and could not be understood or appreciated by most people.

Yangchun Baixue: Originally refers to a higher-level song of Chu State during the Warring States Period. Metaphor for profound and unpopular literature and art. From "Asking the King of Chu" by Song Yu of the Warring States Period of Chu: "They are Yangchun and Baixue; there are only a few dozen people who belong to the country and are harmonious."

Yangchun and Baixue: They are the Warring States Period Songs from the Chu Kingdom of that era were of higher artistic quality and more difficult. Later, it generally refers to advanced and unpopular literature and art. Source: "Ask the King of Chu" by Song Yu of the Warring States Period, Chu Dynasty and "Yangchun Baixue", also known as "Yangchun Ancient Songs".

The representative work of Pipa Daqu is characterized by the comprehensive application of expression techniques and performance styles of Pipa literary music and martial arts. It refers to a kind of elegant music from Chu State during the Warring States Period; it also refers to literary and artistic works that are profound and elegant but not easy to understand. He often competes against "lower people".

The words come from the second volume of the "New Preface" by Liu Xiang of the Han Dynasty, "Miscellaneous Matters No. 2": "The Cike who sang in Yingzhong were originally from Xialiba people, and there were thousands of people who belonged to Hehe in the country. Among them For Yangling, there are hundreds of people who belong to the country; for Yangchun Baixue, there are only dozens of people who belong to the country."

Li Zhouhan's note: ""Yangchun", "Baixue". 》, the name of Gaoqu is also used to refer to elegant music. Conclusion 2 of Mao Zedong's "Speech at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art": "Now it is a matter of unifying the 'Yangchun Baixue' and the 'Lower Riba people', and it is a matter of improving and popularizing the unification."