“五台山上拜佛,大同城里买铜。”大同铜器是汉族传统工艺品,历史悠久,工艺精湛,造型美观,早在北魏时期,就享有盛名。唐宋以来,大同的铜器已畅销全国。明清时期,铸铜、制铜等工艺品已相当繁盛,当时大同钟楼院巷街制铜作坊已达数十处,均系子承父业,世代相传,因此而被称为“铜匠街”。正如《民国大同志稿》所述:“大同虽非铜区,而铜制品向颇著称,物美价廉,多运往外蒙古地方。其大宗售品有铜锅、铜壶等物,尤以火锅为最。自平绥路通车,中外游人旅客咸乐购置之,用作馈赠,其销路愈畅,本品愈多,故手工业中,铜工最为独步。” “Wutai worship Buddha, Datong city to buy copper.” Datong bronze is a traditional Han crafts, has a long history, exquisite workmanship, handsome in appearance, as early as the Northern Wei Dynasty, the prestigious. Since the Tang and Song dynasties, Datong bronze has sold the whole country. Ming and Qing Dynasties, bronze, copper and other handicrafts have been quite prosperous, when Datong Bell House courtyard Alley has reached dozens of copper workshops, are sub-bearing inheritance, from generation to generation, so called “Copper Street ”. As the “Republican version of the draft” stated: "Datong, although non-copper area, while the copper products to quite known, inexpensive, more shipped to Mongolia, where the bulk of its sales of copper pots, copper kettles and other objects, especially Hot pot is the most since the opening of Ping Sui Road, Chinese and foreign tourists to buy salty music, as a gift, the sales of the more smooth, the goods more, so the handicraft, copper most unique.