唐亡之后,中国历史进入了五代十国、宋、辽、金、元时期。北宋和辽、西夏的并立,金和南宋的对峙,元朝的大一统,使这段时期的历史呈现出复杂的局面。战争不断,铜源匮乏,铜禁甚严。当时的铜镜不如汉唐的厚重,镜子制作注重实用,不求华丽。形状仍以圆形为主,亦有方形、弧形、菱形以及带柄形等。宋时还出现了异形镜,比如长方形、钟形、盾形、星形等多种形式。这一时期的铜镜镜体轻薄,装饰简洁,背面多铸有花鸟鱼虫、人物故事、山水楼阁等 After the death of Tang Dynasty, Chinese history entered the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties. The Northern Song Dynasty and the Liao, the summer of Xixia, the confrontation between gold and the Southern Song Dynasty, the great unification of the Yuan Dynasty, the history of this period showed a complex situation. Constant war, lack of copper, copper is very strict. Bronze mirror at the time than the heavy Han and Tang Dynasties, mirror-making emphasis on practical, not gorgeous. The shape is still mainly round, there are square, curved, diamond-shaped and with a handle and so on. Appeared in the Song Dynasty shaped mirror, such as rectangular, bell, shield, star and other forms. This period of bronze mirror body thin, simple decoration, the back of more castings birds and insects, story, landscape pavilions