Ch'en Hui-yen had been tempted to abandon this declining and little respected form of folk art, but after being sent by the Tourism Bureau to demonstrate her skills in Europe and America in 1985 she decided to enhance the standing of dough sculpture in the minds of her countrymen.
從事類似捏麵這種漸趨沒落、不被重視的藝術工作，陳慧燕曾經想放棄，但在七十四年隨觀光局赴歐美表演捏麵藝術之後，陳慧燕不僅打消了放棄的念頭，甚至決心提昇捏麵人在國人心中的地位。