美国作家斯诺在１９３６年访问延安时，当他看到毛泽东住的是简陋的窑洞，穿的是打补丁的衣服，吃的是小米饭南瓜汤；周恩来睡的是土炕；彭德怀穿的是缴获的降落伞做的背心；林伯渠戴的是断了腿的一条绳子系着的眼镜……斯诺被共产党领袖们清贫的生活感动了，他在《西行漫记》 When American writer Snow visited Yan’an in 1936, when he saw Mao Zedong living in a primitive cave, wearing patchwork clothes and eating small pumpkin soup, Zhou Enlai slept with Tukang and Peng Teh-huai was wearing Seized by the parachute vest; Lin Boqui wearing a broken leg of the rope tied to the glasses ... Snow was touched by poor life of the Communist leaders, he was in the “Western Bank”