They were largely people on the margins of society - beggars who had music written on long strips of cloth tied to their arms that people would pull to have sung, peddlers who would go all over selling their medicinal herbs, or the sellers of ketzai booklets.
他們大多是社會的邊緣人，像是在手臂綁著寫有曲目的垂條，任人抽籤點唱的乞丐，或是走江湖賣膏藥的「王祿仙仔」；還有更專業賣歌仔冊的歌仔仙。