The bronze mirrors in the Han dynasty gradually became thicker, and the buttons were mostly hemispherical. In addition to geometric patterns, there are gods and animals. In the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a new relief portrait mirror was created.

Most of the bronze mirrors in the Han Dynasty were round, with large round buttons, round or square button seats and wide edges. Most of the theme patterns are semi-relief, and the themes are diverse. South decorative patterns are mainly animal mirrors, portrait mirrors and auspicious animal mirrors; Persimmon stems in the north are mainly arc-shaped, square, dragon-shaped, true phoenix-shaped and animal heads. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Xin Mang and the Eastern Han Dynasty, the regular mirror was the most popular. The back of the mirror was often decorated with round breasts, four gods, feathers, dragons and tigers or geometric patterns. The mirror back of grass-leaf mirror is dominated by grass-leaf patterns, which are commonly eight-leaf and four-leaf, and some are four-milk, flat and regular patterns. Most of the edges are decorated with continuous arcs, and the most continuous arc is 16. The main producing area of the beast mirror is Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, which began in the Eastern Han Dynasty and prevailed in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. The decorative patterns on the back of the mirror are usually composed of gods and beasts, such as Dong and the Queen Mother of the West. Most of them are high reliefs, and some of them have rhyming inscriptions or dates, which are very beautifully made. 1974 A bronze mirror, round, round button and beaded button seat, depicting Dong and the Queen Mother of the West, was unearthed from No.3 Han Tomb of Anhui Hydropower Warehouse Site. There is an inscription belt outside the seat, and the four corners of the double-line box are exposed under the belt. The inscription is "Du Fu's mirror is clear, and the article is famous. Take this mirror, Fu Shouchang, ten men and five women are happy and live in a house. " In addition, there are four breast nails that divide the main decoration into four areas, namely Qinglong, Baihu, Dong, Queen Mother of the West, a waiter standing and a feather man kneeling. There are sawtooth, chord and moire on the wide edge.