China's bronze age is Xia, Shang, Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn and Warring States. The existing Simuwu Dafang Ding is a rare large bronze ware in the world. There are quite a few casting models in the copper smelting sites in the early Shang Dynasty. Although there were few tools for bronze production in the early funerary objects, we still saw that the tools for bronze production accounted for a considerable proportion in the bronze unearthed in the early Shang Dynasty, indicating that in the handicraft industry of the Shang Dynasty, bronze tools such as axes, saws, chisels, cones and so on. Widely used, bronze weapons are increasing. As for bronze farm tools, although slave owners can't. The practicability of bronze tools in production makes bronze smelting and casting technology increasingly important, so it can develop rapidly.

According to archaeological findings, in the early Shang Dynasty, Liu Lige in Huixian and Donggangou in Luoyang belonged to this era with Erligang in Zhengzhou as the center. In the late Shang Dynasty, the upper floors of Zhengzhou Park and the ruins and tombs of Taishan Temple in Luoyang all belonged to this era, with Xiaotun Village in Anyang as the center. In the early Zhou Dynasty (Western Zhou Dynasty), the main representative sites were the tombs of Anfenghao Village and Baoji in the Western Zhou Dynasty. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the riverside of Luoyang was the center, and the tombs of Guo in Shangcunling, Zheng Zheng in Xinzheng and Cai Hou in Shouxian were the representatives of this period. During the Warring States Period, Liu Lige, Guweicun, Changsha and Tangshan in Huixian all belonged to this era.

According to the latest excavation results, South China also entered the Bronze Age in the early Shang Dynasty. The most representative bronzes are Panlongcheng site in Wuhan, Hubei, Tanheli site in Changsha, Hunan, and Shang Dynasty tomb in Xingan, Jiangxi, which proves that there is also a developed bronze civilization in the Yangtze River basin.

In the Bronze Age, China had established a country (Guo Moruo regarded it as a slave country according to Marxist historical view, which is controversial), agriculture and handicrafts were developed, and Chinese characters were mature.

The epoch-making bronze smelting and casting technology was developed on the basis of copper smelting and casting. China is one of the earliest areas in the world where iron and bronze were invented. Bronze works of art in the Bronze Age and early Iron Age in China show the history of the emergence, development and change of Chinese bronzes, which lasted for more than 1500 years.

In the Stone Age, people simply used rocks as raw materials and made tools to transform nature. The appearance of bronze smelting and casting industry shows that human beings can extract metals from ores and use them to make tools to transform nature. This is a sign that the productive forces have reached a new stage, and it is also an important sign of scientific and technological progress. The development of bronze industry has promoted the emergence of various workers and promoted the prosperity of various industries together. It is precisely because of the development of bronze industry that the Shang society created a splendid bronze civilization.

Bronze is an alloy that ancient working people consciously combined copper with tin or lead. Because the main component is copper and the color is blue, it is named bronze. As an alloy, bronze has a lower melting point than pure copper (red copper). In terms of hardness, bronze is higher than pure copper The volume of molten bronze expands slightly when it condenses, so it has better filling property and fewer pores, which shows that it has better casting performance than pure copper. All these make bronze more adaptable in application, so the production of bronze develops rapidly. Bronze tools have some functions that copper tools can't do, so they gradually replace some stone tools, wood, bone tools and copper, and become an important part of production tools. The appearance of bronze production tools has played an epoch-making role in the development of productive forces. Since then, although the stone tools have not been completely eliminated, the Stone Age has finally been replaced by the Bronze Age.