Why would anyone say that traditional Chinese culture has little to do with the common people?

Chinese traditional culture in fact refers to the Chinese people's civilization customs and spirit of the general term, it is the evolution of Chinese culture into a national culture. With China's main Moo Buddha Taoist traditional culture as the backbone of mutual influence, mutual penetration of the Chinese traditional culture as a whole. Characteristics of traditional culture

Traditional culture is an umbrella term, China's traditional culture, although interrupted at some point in history, but in different periods of history will change, but in general there is no interruption, and also unique national characteristics, which is different from the world's other national cultures. 5,000 years of history and traditional culture, but also to make China's traditional culture more colorful. Chinese traditional culture, such as qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, literature and books, traditional festivals, Beijing opera, Yueju opera, Kunqu opera, Qinqiang opera and so on.

Traditional culture comes from life

Traditional architecture in ancient China, residential houses, temples and gardens, Chinese medicine, such as the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, the Compendium of Materia Medica, the Thousand Gold Formula, typhoid fever, and miscellaneous diseases. Religion and philosophy of Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zhouyi, yin and yang, five elements gossip, feng shui divination. Folk heritage of embroidery and paper-cutting, kites, face, clay figures. Chinese traditional martial arts clothing, flowers, plants, fish and insects, plants and animals, antiques and jade, food, cooking and so on.

There is a gap between the traditional culture and the people

But these traditional culture and the ordinary civilian people do not have much to do. The reason is that in our ancient China, traditional culture is actually the authentic bureaucratic culture. Even if the commoners, the common people were cultured, they would be called by the rich as the lower class. Although it is said that many of the traditional crafts were done by the commoners, the finished products eventually flowed into the homes of the rich and powerful. Due to the limitations of education and the economic level of the people, the common people could only create material wealth, but not spiritual wealth, and could not really enjoy these traditional cultures without too much money. Without too much money, they could not really enjoy the pleasure brought by these traditional cultures. That's why they say that art comes from life, but it's higher than life.