铜镜作为古人日常用品之一,常被人用以正衣冠、照容颜。原始社会时期人们曾掬水映容,随着后世冶金技术的出现与发展,人们便铸造铜镜取代了水的这一功能。在我国,关于铜镜的记载最早见于齐家文化时期,当时,人们常把“鉴”通作“镜”使用,故而古镜亦作“鉴”。青铜时代的楚镜在铜镜艺术中所占有的地位是至关重要的,它因形制、纹饰皆具有鲜明的楚国地域文化特征而自成 Bronze mirror as one of the ancients daily necessities, often used to be Yiyi Guan, according to the face. In the primitive society, people once looked back upon one another. With the advent and development of later metallurgical technologies, people cast bronze mirrors to replace this function of water. In our country, the earliest records of bronze mirrors were found in the period of Qijia culture. At that time, people often used “mirror” to make use of “mirror”. Bronze mirror in the Bronze Mirror occupies a position in the art is crucial, because it has a distinctive shape and decoration of Chu regional culture and self-identity