How to understand Peisi Chen's saying "Don't despise pop culture, Tang poetry and Song poetry are today's jokes"?

Poetry is really not an online joke. There is a threshold. You can say ditty. This ancient folk ditty is well-known and full of vitality. Chen mainly means that he respects the audience, and whatever the audience says is good. You can't just despise it. Relying on the audience to unite the audience is the political correctness of the actors. Although this is nice, I'm afraid it's hard to have a good impression on the operation mode of some popular cultures according to Chen's beliefs.

It is easy to overlook the difference between ancient and modern illiteracy rates. In ancient times, most people who read and wrote poems were not ordinary people, but educated literati, so it is debatable to say that poetry is a popular culture.

But what is the popular culture of the ancient people at the bottom? Most of them have not been handed down, but from modern folk songs, such as Xintianyou, Errenzhuan and Yunnan folk songs, we can see that the popular culture of the bottom people is not so elegant, and vulgar things account for a large proportion. Even in some earlier local operas, all kinds of descriptions about sex in love dramas are straightforward, and the actors' performances are also explicit.

There are ancient pop culture and today's pop culture, and they all appeal to both refined and popular tastes. The difference is that the ancient elegant culture has a greater ability to spread and retain, while the current popular culture has a greater ability to spread and retain, and perhaps even more elegant.

My understanding, in fact, the so-called vulgarity is fun and cheap emotional consumption. The so-called elegance means that people will have deep feelings or have the ability to change people's ideas. These two things are human needs, and competition is meaningless. It's just that everyone is keen on differences.