銅鼎在很早之前的功能作用和現(xiàn)在是不一樣的，現(xiàn)在是銅鼎的風(fēng)水作用，象征意義發(fā)揮著大作用，之前的功能隨著社會的發(fā)展，在不斷地變化中。

    中國成語中有鐘鳴鼎食和一言九鼎之說，反映了鼎在中國古代社會生活中的獨特地位。鼎作為一種重要禮器，象征著團(tuán)結(jié)、統(tǒng)一和權(quán)威，是代表和平、發(fā)展、昌盛的吉祥物。銅鼎，是中國古代最重要的一種禮器。在王墓出土了一套鼎，共九件，這套鼎又名升鼎，這九個鼎大小不一，依次縮小。

青銅鼎

鼎古代原是飪食器，后來變?yōu)榻y(tǒng)治階級政治權(quán)利的重要象征，視為鎮(zhèn)國之寶和傳國之寶，也是“明貴賤，別上下”等級制的標(biāo)志。史載，天子九鼎，諸侯七鼎，卿大夫五鼎，士三鼎或一鼎。

Shanyuan baoding design for the three tripod shape, ding high 7. 158 meters, maximum diameter 5. It's 8 meters and weighs 90 tons. It had three tiers and its ears were one high. 842 meters, ding height 3. 68 meters, full height 1. 48 meters. The tripod has eight compartments in one week, among which six compartments are the real picture of the four famous buddhist mountains, the panorama of the xilai temple and the jading tripod. The other two compartments are respectively inscribed with eight characters: "xilai ancient temple" and "shanyuan baoding".

銅鼎鑄造廠

方格紋銅鼎，夏代青銅鼎，1975年出土于洛陽偃師二里頭遺址，該鼎通高20厘米，口徑15.3厘米，底徑10厘米，其造型和紋飾風(fēng)格與中原龍山文化晚期的陶鼎幾乎完全一致，但材質(zhì)卻是當(dāng)時罕見的貴金屬——青銅。

The coffered bronze ding, a bronze ding of xia dynasty, was unearthed in erlitou site of luoyang yanshi city in 1975. The ding has a height of 20 cm, a diameter of 15.3 cm and a bottom diameter of 10 cm. Its shape and decorative style are almost exactly the same as the pottery ding in the late period of longshan culture in the plains, but its material is the rare precious metal at that time -- bronze.