Small and big（with an additional poem）

Nie Quan

Yangjialing, the former dwelling place of Mao Zedong

A cave

1938.11-1943.10

One desk and one chair

Two rocking chairs for guests

Zaoyuan, the former dwelling place of Mao Zedong

Cave

1943.10-1945.12

Is still with

One desk and one chair

The war room displayed situation map of the enemy and ourselves

A cave

Is also a small room

Just like cooking a small delicacy

Liberation which gave people happiness

Was a perfect art

Just as going within palm

It showed a big world by an inch of land

It fought with the big by smallness, it conquered the giant by puniness

It defeated the modern equipment by simple weapons

Picture of Yan'an

Cave, loess

Plants, the stretching hills

They are not eye-catching, but like standing water

Running deeply, like Yellow River

Keeping its countenance

But passes thousands of miles

Hukou, when it needs to turn, suddenly

It falls intensely

Rushing vehemently

Without an end

In the picture of Yan'an

Every tiny ordinariness

Contains

Chinese old cultural spirit

Nie Quan: Male, from Shuozhou, Shanxi Province, member of Chinese Writers Association, editor of Shikan.