中国境内最早的铜器,出现于新石器末期——大汶口文化、龙山文化及齐家文化的遗址中。遗物包括红铜、青铜以及黄铜制品,都是一些形态较小,构造简单的工具和饰品。较大的冶铸铜器,则是在进入文明时代的二里头文化的遗址中发现的。这件铜爵即是最早期的遗物之一。这件铜爵1982年出土于河南偃师二里头文化遗址中。青铜制,长流、体态短矮、器壁较薄,素面无纹,平底,结构简单粗陋,外壁尚留有合范浇注时的铸痕,表现出了早期铜爵制作水平较低的特点。 The earliest bronze ware in China appeared in the late Neolithic period - Dawenkou Culture, Longshan Culture and Qijia Culture Site. Relics, including copper, bronze and brass, are some of the smaller and simpler tools and accessories. The larger metallurgical bronze found in the site of the Erlitou culture that entered the civilized era. This piece of copper is one of the earliest relics. This copper Jue 1982 unearthed in Yanshi, Henan Erlitou cultural sites. Bronze, long stream, short body, wall thinner, plain no pattern, flat, simple structure, the outer wall still cast a cast when casting marks, showing a low level of early production of copper Jue characteristics.