Though the location where these rituals took place is unclear, the first record does imply that they took place in the royal ancestral temple. Her early writings attend more to female experience, especially women's suffering in a patriarchal society, With field as the primary example. Her later works bear witness to an individually experienced loss of nation. The image or notion to which I draw attention here—home—links both sets of writings. In the former, women, despite being within a family, are totally displaced and superseded by men. In the latter, the Chinese are rendered homeless through the country’s subjugation to the Japanese. She seldom lets social concepts devour artistry. For her, the problem of suffering women lies in the fact that they are homeless Both in the Microcosm of home—the Patriarchal family—and on the Macrocosmic level under the Japanese occupation. Now the whole of China became her object of longing.