中国锁具历史悠久,据出土文物考证和历史文献记载,锁具发展至今有5000年历史。新石器时期仰韶文化之“骨错”、“石错”就是锁钥雏形。古锁初称牡、闭、钥、链、钤。早期为竹、木结构,起源于门闩。春秋战国时鲁班于木锁内设堂奥机关,至东汉制金属簧片结构锁。入唐时,锁多为金、银、铜、铁、木制成。明代遂成为广锁、花旗锁、首饰锁、刑具锁四大类。实际上还有一类密码锁,只是不太常见罢了。后历经清代、民国到上世纪50年代,古锁工艺精致奥妙、文化内涵丰富。雕花刻字如:状元及第、长命富贵、麒麟送子、龙凤呈祥等。尤以鱼形锁为例,在《芝田录》中道:“门锁必为鱼者,取其不暝守夜之意。”鱼亦作年年有 China has a long history of locks, according to unearthed cultural relics and historical records, the development of locks up to 5,000 years of history. Neolithic Yangshao culture “bone wrong ”, “stone wrong ” is the key prototype. Ancient lock said the beginning of the ancient, closed, key, chain, 钤. Early bamboo, wood structure, originated in the latch. Spring and autumn and the Warring States Period Luban wooden lock inside the Church organ, to the Eastern Han Dynasty metal reed structure lock. Into the Tang Dynasty, the lock is mostly gold, silver, copper, iron, wood. Ming became Sui lock, Citi lock, jewelry lock, torture lock four categories. In fact there is a class of password lock, just not so common. After the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China to the last century 50’s, the ancient lock sophisticated technology, rich cultural connotation. Carved lettering such as: champion and the first, long-lived wealth, Kirin send child, dragon and so on. In particular, the fish-shaped lock, for example, in the “Shida recorded” in the Road: “The door lock will be the fish, whichever is less vigilant.”