In a society, high culture encompasses cultural objects of aesthetic value that a society collectively esteems as exemplary works of art,[1] as well as the literature, music, history, and philosophy a society considers representative of its culture.[2]
In popular usage, the term high culture identifies the culture either of the upper class (an aristocracy) or of a status class (the intelligentsia); "high culture" also identifies a society's common repository of broad-range knowledge and tradition (folk culture) that transcends its social-class system. Sociologically, the term is contrasted with "low culture", which comprises the forms of popular culture characteristic of the less-educated social classes, such as the barbarians, the philistines, and hoi polloi (the masses),[3] though the upper classes very often also enjoy low culture.
国内经济腾飞以后各种富人俱乐部、淑女、礼仪课程都涌现出来了的。中国几千年文明史，文化艺术遗产更是丰厚。可能具体到形式和内容上有差异，上流社会和精致生活当然有对应的存在。
