A Trip to Yan’an (II)延安之行（下）

In the morning we were taken to where the Liberation Daily had been printed when Yan’an was the revolutionary center. Our friend George Hatem， when he wasn’t doctoring， had helped produce the English edition. As a precaution against Japanese and， subsequently， Kuomintang bombings， the newspaper had been housed in the Cave of the Ten Thousand Buddhas—a cavern about 60 feet square which had been hewn out of solid rock over 1，000 years ago. Two huge pillars supported the ceiling. Every inch of the walls and pillars was lined with rows of carved Buddhas and female figures in the lush natural style of the Tang Dynasty.

次日上午，我们被领去参观延安作为革命中心时期印刷出版《解放日报》的地方。（剩余6757字）