熔模精密铸造是在古代蜡模铸造的基础上发展起来的。作为文明古国，中国是使用这一技术较早的国家之一，远在公元前数百年，我国古代劳动人民就创造了这种失蜡铸造技术，用来铸造带有各种精细花纹和文字的钟鼎及器皿等制品，如春秋时的曾侯乙墓尊盘等。曾侯乙墓尊盘底座为多条相互缠绕的龙，它们首尾相连，上下交错，形成中间镂空的多层云纹状图案，这些图案用普通铸造工艺很难制造出来，而用失蜡法铸造工艺，可以利用石蜡没有强度、易于雕刻的特点，用普通工具就可以雕刻出与所要得到的曾侯乙墓尊盘一样的石蜡材质的工艺品，然后再附加浇注系统，涂料、脱蜡、浇注，就可以得到精美的曾侯乙墓尊盘。
Investment casting is developed on the basis of wax pattern casting in ancient times. As an ancient country of civilization, China is one of the countries that use this technology earlier. In the hundreds of years BC, the ancient laboring people of our country created this kind of lost wax casting technology to cast products with various fine patterns and words, such as the Zeng Hou B Tomb of Zeng Hou during the spring and Autumn period. The pedestal of Ceng Houyi's tomb is a number of intertwined dragons. They are connected in the first place and are interlaced up and down to form a multi-layer moire pattern in the middle. These patterns are difficult to be made by ordinary casting. And the wax loss casting process can make use of the characteristics of the paraffin without strength and engraving, with ordinary tools. In order to carve the paraffin material that is the same as that of the Ceng Houyi tomb, and then add the casting system, paint, dewaxing, pouring, you can get the beautiful Ceng Houyi tomb.