我国旧时的金属器皿,大致可分为:金器、银器、铜器、铁器和锡器。其中金银器皿,因其自身价格的昂贵多用于达官显贵、富商大贾之家,以及一些高级的交际应酬场所。铜器则多用于中常人家、兼用于上层和社会底层。而锡器因其材料廉价、易得,加工工艺简单,以及器物外观欠美欠雅,新品表面稍有亮色,用久既成黑灰而不钟于中上人家,多流于市井贫民和广大农村。 锡器一般为低温模铸而成。旧时的品种大略可有几类;一类为酒具,如提梁酒壶,大小都在盈握之间,多用于居家烫酒,自饮自酌;还有一种酒壶为细脖敞口,北方俗称“扎斗”,盛酒二两,多用于低档酒 China’s old metal ware, can be roughly divided into: gold, silverware, bronze, iron and tin. One of the gold and silver utensils, because of its own expensive price for the dignitaries, rich merchants House, as well as some high-level social entertainment places. Bronze is often used for ordinary people, and for the top and bottom of society. The tin because of its cheap materials, easy to get, the processing technology is simple, and utensils appearance less than the United States, the surface of a little bright color, with a long time as dark as the clock instead of middle and upper house, and more flow in the urban poor and the vast rural areas . Tin is generally molded from low temperature. The old varieties can have several categories; a class of wine, such as Tijiangjihu, the size of the surplus between grip, and more for home hot wine, drink their own discretion; there is a hip flask for the neck open, Known as the northern “battle”, Sheng wine twenty-two, mostly used for low-grade wine