中国历史上重要的铜雕艺术品有西周的“伯矩”鬲，晚商的“司母戊”鼎以及汉代的“马踏飞燕”。
Important bronze carvings in Chinese history include the "Bo Li" of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the "Si Mu Wu" Ding of the late Shang Dynasty and the "Ma Ta Fei Yan" of the Han Dynasty.
人类最早使用铸造金属的记载已经模糊不清了，但我们可以这样推测：早期的狩猎者们围坐在火边，一块铜块落进了煤炭里，铜块熔化并流淌，像一股闪光的小溪流，一旦冷却，这个闪光的重物体就变得很硬，形成了新的形状。
The earliest records of human use of cast metal are obscure, but we can speculate that the early hunters sat around the fire, a piece of copper fell into the coal, melted and flowed like a flash stream, and once cooled, the flash became hard and took on a new shape.
很可能早期人们看到这种现象反复发生，然后他们寻找、收集铜块，把它们扔到火里，看那些闪光的溪流慢慢流出。一些人想象并在沙地上面出一个形状，让金属流进去，也许就变成了一个矛尖。从那以后，金属铸造经历了几十个世纪直到2018年。
It's likely that early people saw this happen again and again, and then they searched for and collected copper pieces, threw them into the fire, and watched the glittering streams trickle out. Some people imagine and make a shape on the sand, let the metal flow in, maybe become a spearhead. Since then, metal casting has gone through several decades until 2018.