The Western Han Dynasty bronze mirror has also been put to use

The Government into the split state, successive years of war seriously affected the social development of production, leading to the southern and northern economic development imbalances, making this period the production of bronze mirrors, including the shape, decoration, and the casting process not only changes over the times, showing the phase characteristics, but also very clear showing north-south regional differences, this period of the bronze mirror design can be divided into the following three periods. To the Warring States Period, the bronze had made a great advancement. Three Kingdoms Jin Dynasty period, due to production and production techniques, the continuity of style and use of the continuity of this period is actually from the late Han Dynasty starting. Late Han Dynasty war, the north-cast mirror center of Luoyang, central yet party workers Officer and around the cast mirror workshop was severely damaged.
 The Wei Caozheng the right to establish and Qianduluoyang, although the reconstruction is still party workers Officer Kevin Mirror has been restored, but the Birds bronze mirror just followed since the Eastern Han Dynasty bronze mirror type, there is no innovation, such as simplifying the rules mirror, the first animal mirror Kui Fung mirror, the Dulong mirror, Bird mirror, dual-Kui mirror and so on, the only new evolved from a two-Kui mirror guides the bit to Sangong a mirror 1. This period of the Yangtze River in the late Han Dynasty of war to maintain a relatively stable situation, Wu cast mirror industry has been unprecedented progress and reached a relative peak level, and Sanin Hueiji (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang ) and Wuchang (now Hubei Ezhou City), two mirror centers. But Suozhu bronze mirror type is still popular since the Eastern Han Dynasty bronze mirror type-based. The production of bronze wielded founding, welding, lost wax and the craft of mix-inlaying gold.
 There is no large change in specific shapes and ornamentation. Slightly innovative four-leaf eight goggles types of eight wind Buddha beast mirror and radial draw lines with the Buddha animal mirror. 'The second period is the Eastern Jin Dynasty Sixteen Kingdoms and Southern and Northern Dynasties early, the Central Plains region of the Eight Princes since, already caught in a fragmented state, the years of war, handicraft industry received a serious impact and even destroy, bronze mirrors. The shapes of the bronze tend to be thin and smart while the patterns meticulous and elaborate.  The foundry industry almost a halt. The south-cast Mirror also signs of a recession, reflected in the types of bronze mirror changes the animal in the mirror is generally animal mirror and radial restated greatly reduced animal mirror, segmented animal mirror to the restated would be completely extinct in the Jin Dynasty, only the semi-circular side pieces of animal mirror more the number in the popular, but the casting of the bronze mirror of poor quality, the decoration is simple and rough.
This period portrait mirror class. Cited in the tube-dimensional good: 'Chinese bronze mirror History', in February 2006 the first edition of, 137. The State cited pipe dimension good: 'Chinese bronze mirror history), the first edition in February 2006, 138. Journal of Shandong University like change, no longer in the ornamentation on the traveling man of God, dragon and other patterns of life-like, but only a simple two God serve two animals, the production of rough, poor copper. The Kui goggles is also very rare, the original pattern is complicated and ornate four leaves eight phoenix mirror also simplifies the monotonous picture of four-leaf named his mirror. Although due to popularity of the iron causing less and less bronze tools, still there are plentiful bronze produced. The third period is the Northern and Southern Dynasties late northern region have been unified, but cast the mirror industry did not recover, because there is no workshop for the production of bronze mirrors, and society can only be in use since the Eastern Han, the old mirror, even the Western Han Dynasty bronze mirror has also been put to use.