Lin Yi-he, a cultural worker in the Atayal community of Tai-an Rural Town-ship, contends that because qingmian now carries a derogatory connotation in the Chinese language, it is better to replace it with the neutral term wenmian.
泰安鄉的泰雅族文化工作者林義和認為，既然黥面在漢族裡有貶抑之意，還是以中性的「文面」稱之較妥。