魯迅は文言ではなく白話で小説を書いた。
Lu Xun wrote his fiction in the vernacular rather than in Classical Chinese.
清代までの公文書は文言で書かれていた。
Official documents up to the Qing dynasty were written in Classical Chinese.
授業で文言と白話の違いを学んだ。
In class we learned the difference between Classical Chinese and the vernacular.