Complex sentence: To bring children up, Yang suffered untold hardships so she wrote and chanted Nüshu during free time to pour out the anguish of the heart and divert herself from boredom.
Split into simpler sentences: To bring children up, Yang suffered untold hardships. Living in this kind of suffering environment, she wrote and chanted Nüshu during free time to pour out the anguish of the heart and divert herself from boredom.