1. Huang said that both human sacrifice and accompanying buries show the influence of cannibalism, which had been abolished in the Central Plains during the Warring States Period.
2. The routes through it provided the means whereby the Han Chinese of the central plains could communicate with the desert tribes living beyond the border.
3. Its purpose was to stop northern invaders - bad neighbors who were to give offense, to paraphrase Frost's poem - from pillaging and plundering the Central Plains.
4. Archaeologists believe the bronze horse statue will shed great light on ancient cultures and lifestyles of the Central Plains.
5. So when torrential rain first began pounding the parched central and eastern plains, people welcomed it with a sigh of great relief.
6. It is not only a modern city but also a famous ancient town in the Central Plains with a long history and rich cultural heritage.
7. The people who lived there struck up links with the Han in the Central Plains long before the Christian era.
8. Li also facilitated the province's urbanization by incubating city clusters in the Central Plains as new growth points.
9. The central plains region has historically been a key area for the nation, even more so now because of growing economic connections and modern transport networks.
10. The Uighur local regimes had very close relations with the ruling dynasties in the Central Plains.