Originating from the Mongolian
Plateau〜5,000ー5,700 years ago,
Chinese sheep were inferred
to spread in the upper and
middle reaches of the Yellow River
〜3,000ー5,000 years ago following
the expansions of the Di-Qiang people. Afterwards, sheep were then inferred to reach the Qinghai-Tibetan and Yunnan-Kweichow plateaus 〜2,000ー2,600 years ago by following the north-to-southwest routes of the Di-Qiang migration.