中国的矿冶遗产无论是青铜矿冶遗址还是铸铜作坊遗址都有着十分丰富的遗存。夏、商、周时期,青铜冶铸的专业化生产对于人类社会从野蛮时代向文明时代的过渡发挥了重要作用,众多古代城市遗址中发现的各类铸铜作坊遗址,无不验证了中国青铜遗产与古代城市文明之间不可分割的关系,尤其是作为兵器、礼器的各类青铜器,在早期以城市为中心的国家政治和社会文明进程中更是承担着无可替代的角色。汉代以后,青铜器具依然独领风骚,带动了一拨又一拨的文化浪潮,华夏文明也正是在这些文化浪潮的推动下得以连绵不断,发展至今。
China boasts rich mining relics both in bronze metallurgical sites and copper workshop sites .In the Xia Shang Zhou period, specialized production of bronze metallurgy plays an important role in the transi -tion of human society from barbarism to civilization era .Many copper workshop sites Verifies the inseparable relation between Chinese bronze heritage and ancient city civilization .Especially various types of bronze ,as weapons or sacrificial vessels, play an irreplaceable role in the national political and social progress taking cities as the center of of civilization .Bronze ware still dominates after Han Dynasty and initiates multiple cul-tural waves, from which Chinese civilization has developed so far without stop .