中国古代铜镜的铸制技术与青铜器一样走过了数千年的发展史。由于社会政治集团重视青铜礼器,所以青铜礼器的铸制技术在商代早期,甚至在更早一段历史时期就已十分成熟。青铜镜从其几何形状看,比铸制青铜礼器相对简单。其铸制过程虽简单,但由于不是当时社会政治集团的社会活动必须品,没有受到相应的重视,因此,其铸制技术在相当长的一个历史阶段内没有得到技术进步。从齐家文化期至西周的这一历史时期内,铜镜的铸制技术基本处于一个摸索阶段。从出土资料可知,齐家文化期的铜镜合金中的 Ancient bronze mirror casting technology, like bronze, passed the history of thousands of years. As the socio-political groups attached great importance to bronze vessels, the casting techniques of bronze vessels were quite mature in the early Shang Dynasty, even earlier in history. Bronze mirrors, from their geometry, are relatively simpler than cast bronze vessels. Although its casting process was simple, it was not necessary for the social activities of the social and political groups at the time and was not given the corresponding attention. Therefore, the foundry technology did not make technological progress in a long historical period. During the historical period from the Qijia Culture period to the Western Zhou Dynasty, the bronze mirror casting technology was basically in a groping phase. We can see from the unearthed material, Qijia period of copper mirror alloy