青铜器是夏商周时期礼制文化的代表。它的铸造不仅是当时艺术水平的体现,其作为礼器,在功能上的发展过程中更是对当时社会历史变迁的直接反映。本文就以青铜鬲为例,研究其从炊器到礼器的发展过程,来探讨当时社会的饮食文化、社会等级制度以及婚姻制度,以便对当时社会历史的变迁有一个清晰的了解。 Bronze is the representative of ritual culture in Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties. Its casting is not only the embodiment of the artistic level at that time, but also as a direct reflection of the historical changes of society at that time in its function development process. In this paper, we take the bronze medaka as an example to study its development process from cooker to ceremonial to discuss the society’s diet culture, social hierarchy and marriage system in order to have a clear understanding of the social history.