why Metals are reducing in nature
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The reducing character increases from sodium to caesium. However, lithium is the strongest reducing agent. The reason is, Alkali metals have a low value of ionization energy which decreases down the group and so can easily lose their valence electron and thus act as good reducing agents.
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Metals themselves are solid materials, some hard, other soft that will act as reducing agents. The metals have unfilled valance electron shells, and and relatively low electronegativity. This means that the metal atoms would want to lose their outer electrons and become a positively charged metal ion.
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