Running donkeys is also known as "driving donkeys" in folk customs. Because donkeys are closely related to farmers' lives (introduced in this book), people naturally introduced them into the field of mass cultural life over time, and passed them down from generation to generation. The method of making a "donkey" is to first use wooden sticks, bamboo strips or willow branches to make a skeleton, cover it with black cloth or cardboard, and then dye it black, hang a copper bell on the "donkey neck", hang red silk on the "donkey head", and then use black-dyed hemp to make the "donkey tail" and "donkey bristles" respectively. During the performance, a beautiful and agile girl is chosen to ride on the "donkey" (the actual donkey is hollow in the middle, and the actor stands in the middle, and red cloth ribbons are tied around the left and right sides of the "donkey" and hung on the actor's shoulders). The girl holds the donkey's reins tightly with both hands and deliberately shakes when running, just like a real "donkey" running (in fact, the girl and the "donkey" are performed by the same actor, with the lower body performing various actions of the "donkey" and the upper body performing various actions of riding the "donkey"), followed by a handsome man with a white towel around his head, a red silk tied around his body and a long whip in his hand as the "donkey" driver. During the performance, he usually follows behind the yangko team, and sometimes performs alone in the square. As the drum beats, the donkey driver waves the long whip in his hand, jumps forward and backward, and plays with the girl riding the donkey by hitting, pulling, blocking, chasing, etc. Sometimes they are like brothers and sisters; sometimes they are better than husband and wife; sometimes they are like lovers, with joy and sorrow, happiness and anger, shaking the girl to the point of losing her soul, chasing the boy up and down to gasp for breath, making the girl riding the donkey lean forward and backward, swaying left and right, fidgeting, and terrified. At the same time, the donkey goes up the mountain with the sound of the copper bell on its neck; sometimes it goes downhill with its head down, sometimes it runs with its tail between its legs, sometimes it gets scared and goes crazy, sometimes it goes up and down, and even struggles in a mud pit, which dazzles the audience, and the applause stops until the donkey leaves the stage. The running donkey has made the Loess Plateau red. It has "run" to the provincial capital Xi'an, "run" to the capital Beijing, and "run" out of the country, and has been widely welcomed by people.