This paper discusses the differences and connections between classical literature and modern literature.

Simply put, literature is a creative art, which takes language as the medium to reflect real life or express personal feelings. So basically all reasonable or emotional works should be regarded as part of literature. Generally speaking, general literature includes poems, novels, essays, plays, screenplays and so on. As long as there is truth or emotion in the text, it is literature, so literature is almost all-encompassing. And the editorial you mentioned is naturally a part of literature.

Knowing what literature is, the distinction between classical literature and modern literature is easy to understand. The so-called classical literature, but refers to the ancient (before the May 4th Movement) literary works, written in classical Chinese. The so-called modern literature also refers to modern literature (after the May 4th Movement), which is mostly written in vernacular Chinese. For example, ancient poetry is simply called "ancient poetry", while modern poetry is generally called "new poetry". That's all ~