Copper is one of the earliest metals used by human beings. The smelting of ancient Chinese bronzes began at the end of primitive society, and has a history of more than 5,000 years. Bronze wares include wine wares, food wares, water wares, dowry wares, ornamental wares and daily life wares. The earliest bronze wares were mainly used for sacrifice and life, and wine wares were also one of the most important ones. In the Han and Jin Dynasties, there appeared wine barons, which were utensils used by ancient people to distribute wine or warm wine.

铜是人类最早使用的一种金属，中国古铜器的冶铸大约始于原始社会末期，距今已有五千多年的历史。古铜器包括酒器、食器、水器、陪嫁、观赏和日常生活用器等。最早出现的铜器，主要用于祭祀和生活，酒器也是其中很重要的一种。到汉晋时期，出现了酒爵，酒爵是古代人分酒或温酒的器皿。

The picture above shows Maotai wine baron, a ceremonial vessel for drinking. Liquor played an important role in ancient sacrificial rites. In Zhou Li, officials named Jiuzheng were specifically mentioned, who were responsible for "the decree of wineholding and the teaching of liquor materials in the form of law". The use of different kinds of wine utensils in different occasions and ceremonies is also an important prop reflecting the status, dignity and specifications. The winemaker is called Zunyi, but the Lianwen of "Zunyi" also refers to all the ritual vessels. In ancient times, ceramics were made of pottery, wood and copper, and most of the unearthed articles were made of copper. The main winefilling utensils are Zun, Yi (Fang Yi), Bo, pot, jug, urd, cup, urd and so on. There are abundant, boat, forbidden and banned implements for inheriting respect and Yi. Wine drinkers are known as barons, decorated with copper, wood, or jade, horns, etc. There are mainly noble, crotch, horn, steamed, steamed, steamed, cup and so on. There are spoons, buckets, straight handle as spoon, crank as bucket. The instrument of the plough is called the plough. The skull's vessel is called Gui Zan. Jue is a kind of drinking vessel in ancient China. Jue's front flow, that is, the flow trough pouring wine, followed by a sharp tail, a cup in the middle, a pole on one side, three feet below, and a column at the mouth of the cup. Jue prevailed in the Shang Dynasty to the Western Zhou Dynasty, and was rarely seen in the late Spring and Autumn Period.

上图即是国酒茅台酒爵，酒爵是用来饮酒的礼器。上古的祭祀礼俗中酒扮演重要角色，《周礼》中专门提到名为酒正的官员，负责"掌酒之政令.以式法授酒材"。不同场合和仪式上使用不同种类的酒器也是体现身份尊卑、规格高下的重要道具。盛酒器通称为尊，但"尊彝"连文亦指礼器全体，古以陶制，亦有木制、铜制，出土多为铜质。主要盛酒器有尊、彝(方彝)、卣、壶、罍、瓿、盉、甒等。承放尊、彝之器有丰、舟、禁、棜(斯禁)。饮酒器通称为爵，以铜制、木制，或以玉、兽角等所饰。主要有爵、斝、角、觚、觯、觥、杯等。挹酒之器有勺、斗，直柄为勺，曲柄为斗。扱醴之器曰柶。挹鬯之器曰圭瓒。爵，是中国古代的一种饮酒器。爵的前有流，即倾酒的流槽，后有尖锐状尾，中为杯，一侧有鋬，下有三足，流与杯口之际有柱，爵盛行于商代至西周时期，春秋后期已经少见。

This collection is oldfashioned and primitive, but with clear texture and neat shape, it is of great historical and artistic value. Wine culture is the Bronze Age in the earliest culture of the Chinese nation. It can be seen from this that the cup of wine is a longstanding cultural tradition of the Chinese people. Judge is one of the greatest testimonies of the tradition of wine culture inherited to this day.

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这件藏品包浆老道，古朴感十足，但纹理清晰，造型周正，是非常有历史价值和艺术价值的藏品！酒文化是诞生中华民族最早期文化中的青铜器时期，由此可见，对酒把杯，是中国人源远流长的文化传统。而爵算是遗传至今最伟大的酒文化传统的见证之一。

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