商代晚期西周早期公元前13世纪—公元前11世纪。商代晚期至西周早期青铜艺术辉煌灿烂。商代礼器的重酒体制臻于完善，满布器身的纹饰大量采用浮雕和平雕相结合的方法，精美绝伦。运用夸张、象征手法表现动物神怪的兽面纹空前发达，既壮严神秘又富有生气。纪事何铭文在商末出现。周初礼器沿袭商制，出现了向重食体制转变的端倪。铸记长篇铭文是西周青铜礼器的重要特点。

The late Shang Dynasty was in the early Western Zhou Dynasty from thirteenth Century B.C. to eleventh Century BC. From the late Shang Dynasty to the early Western Zhou Dynasty, the art of bronze was brilliant. The Shang Dynasty ritual heavy wine system perfection, the relief method combined with peace carved body decoration uses a lot of exquisite beyond compare. The use of exaggeration and symbolism of the animal faces unprecedented developed animal spirits, both serious and mysterious alive. The chronicle He Mingwen appeared at the end of the business. At the beginning of the week following the ritual makers, appeared to change the food system. Zhuji long inscription is an important feature of the Western Zhou Dynasty bronze wares.

西周中期、晚期春秋早期公元前11世纪末—公元前7世纪上半叶。西周中晚期的青铜器形成重食的系统。列鼎制度、编钟制度和赐命作器之习已经形成。新器类出现，器形端庄厚重，纹饰多为动物变形，或流转舒畅，或朴质简率。作器铸铭盛行，多见有长篇铭文的重器。春秋早期的形制和纹饰是西周中晚期的自然延续。各诸侯国普遍建立青铜铸造业，水平不一，有的范铸技术略显粗疏，大国之器仍较精严。

The middle of the West Zhou Dynasty, the late spring and Autumn period, the late eleventh Century B.C. - the first half of the seventh Century B.C. The bronze ware of the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty forms the system of heavy food. Column tripod system, chime system and give life habit has been formed as a tracker. The new class, the shape of dignified thick, ornamentation is animal deformation, or the transfer of comfortable, simple or plain. As for Zhuming vogue, see long inscription jack. The form and ornamentation of the early spring and Autumn period were the natural continuation of the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty. The princes of the country generally establish the bronze casting industry, the level is not the same, some casting technology is still slightly careless, the country is strict.