For a long time, storytelling in northern Shaanxi has been the exclusive right of blind people. The old blind man teaches the little blind man, and the master accepts his disciples, all through oral instruction. The master teaches patiently, and the apprentice carefully memorizes it. This is how it continues from generation to generation. In the old society, discerning people did not learn to tell stories. One is because it is immoral and cannot take away the poor blind man's business; the other is that he is ashamed to engage in this kind of industry and thinks it is a despicable and unnoble livelihood. Without the guidance of knowledgeable and discerning people, blind artists who are both blind and illiterate innovate and develop in an extremely narrow circle. As a result, although this kind of folk art is a kind of folk art that the masses like very much, it cannot be achieved. vigorously develop.
In the old society, blind storytellers almost always engaged in feudal superstitious activities such as fortune telling, doll making, and ghost sending in order to make ends meet. Fortune-telling is mostly "blind man rolling meteors", that is, the ten heavenly stems of A, B, C, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, Gui must be used. Once you have memorized the sequence of the sixty stems and branches thoroughly, remember the year of one of the stems and branches, and then determine the birth date and horoscope; according to the birth date and horoscope, you can infer a person's life destiny. The blind man rolling meteors is the work of a blind man, who lacks the ability to observe words and emotions, and has an unchanging conclusion. Therefore, it can confuse ignorant people and is of course very harmful.