The indigenous people's reaction is not simply sour grapes at having lost the chance to eat and sell mountain animals. "Traditional hunting culture can not be described by phrases like 'commercial transaction' or 'recreation,'" says Ming Li-kuo, a Han Chinese scholar who has made collections of indigenous people's music.
原住民的反應，絕不僅是禁獵後少了山產可吃、可售能解釋的，「傳統的狩獵文化無法以商業交易或娛樂一言蔽之」，採集原住民音樂的漢族學者明立國如此強調。