At first, the ancient people view their image from the water surface of river or pool, so there has been a period of taking water as mirror.But there is too much limitation with natural conditions, e.g., when in bad weather, such as strong winds, rains, the water surface will not be flat, the image will be not clear.Then the ancient people begin to view their image by filling water into container, this is so-called 'water mirror'. The earliest container to be used is pottery pot, from the unearthed primitive society cultural relics, found in Xi'an Banpo villiage, we can see there are some water containing pottery pots.

 And later, came the copper basin, which filled with water. But only bowing to view their image by the 'water mirror', the head can't rise. Later came the Bronze Age, the smooth copper surface is reflective, people can view their image directly from the copper surface, then 'bronze mirror' came into the world.

During the warring states period of China, the social relations of production changed a lot, all kinds of technology was developing rapidly, bronze mirror technology continues to improve.People make variety of patterns by sculpture or insetting golden silver thread on the back of the bronze mirror, which becomes beautiful arts and crafts.

Bronze mirror has been used more than 3000 years in China, until the Qing Dynasty it is replaced by the glass mirror.And what is more in history, the Europeans made mirror using silver. Russians have also made mirror using steel.


Glass mirror was invented by Venetian about more than 600 years ago. They first created a flat glass plate, followed by the invention of metal-plating on the flat glass, the glass mirror was such made.

At first, the metal plated on the glass plate is mixture of tin and mercury, Mercury vapor is toxic and harmful.

Now the mirror producing technology is chemical silver plating, Now, scientists are researching aluminum plating mirror, which will be more cheaper, more durable, more brighter.

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