The popular age of Bronze Zhi across the two bronze prosperous stages of late Shang and prior period of Western Zhou, which is a kind of very important bronze drinking vessels of the Shang and Western Zhou Dynasties. In view of the importance of bronze Zhi for relevant academic issues discussed, this paper, based on a comprehensive collection of excavated and handed down bronze Zhi, to classify the type of bronze Zhi with archaeological typology method, summarize the development evolution, periodize bronze Zhi according to shape, ornamentation, combination and inscriptions, and judge the absolute date of each phrase and sub-phrase according to typical units and coexistence pottery. In this paper, the earliest slender-body Zhi appear in Ji'nan Daxinzhuang tombs of the Yin RuinsⅠculture, the earliest bold Zhi find in Anyang tombs of the Yin Ruins Ⅱ culture, Zhi achieve the bloom period in Yin Ruins Ⅳ culture after the development of the Yin Ruins Ⅲ culture, which sharp increase the amount and shapes, and expand distribution range beyond the region of Shang Dynasty ruled. Zhi reach a new boom period in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, the distribution range extend to the new occupied area of Western Zhou Dynasty in addition to the amount significantly more than Yin Ruins Ⅳ culture. And then, Zhi change from consolidation to decline in the early sub-phase of the mid Western Zhou Dynasty, which obviously reduce the amount and make rough, and completely vanish in the late sub-phase of the mid Western Zhou Dynasty.