Abstract: Drums are used as a kind of music instrument, even in ancient time. Before or after 2000 B, C. , in the middle China, bronze drums with bronze all over were produced. About 600 B. C. bronze drums with one face empty were produced in the south western part of China, The later have been unearthed very many after the liberation of China, and more than 1400 pieces are reserved in different museums. Due ro the wars of different dynasty and some other reasons, people of south- western China moved south-ward, the technique of casting bronze drum was brought to Vietnam, Burma and south-eastern Asia, During nineteenth century, the European imperialist robbed several bronze drums and sent to Europe for exhibition, meanwhile, some scholars made reports on bronze drums for different magazines about bronze drums. Vietmam after her independence claimed that she was the native land of bronze drums. In fact, China Keeps the original or the earliest bronze drums of all over the world. In this paper, the writer made a good analysis about the styles, initiation and progress of bronze drums, and from the standpoint of a foundryman, described more detail about the chemical composition, the furnace of melting and the methods of molding bronze drums.