Atayal Wu Mei-lan, a civil servant in Tai-an Rural Township, says that she has heard many an old person talking about their experience of facial tattooing. The impression she has is one of "pain, so painful that you'd rather die," completely contrary to the romantic notion which some people associate with it.
泰安鄉民政課課員，也是泰雅族的吳梅蘭表示，她曾聽過許多老人訴說文面經歷，得到最多的印象是「很痛、痛不欲生」等，完全沒有一般人想像的浪漫意味。