Pottery in earthy red, brick red or maroon. Red pottery is one of the earliest pottery varieties in China. It is the most common in all cultures of the Neolithic Age in the primitive society. The earliest pottery relics unearthed in China from the Zhuangtou site in xushuinan, Hebei Province and the shenxiandong site in Lishui, Jiangsu province more than 10000 years ago are mainly red pottery. Yangshao culture, Majiayao culture, Majiabang culture, Daxi Culture and so on in the prosperous period of matriarchal clan society. Red pottery accounts for a large proportion of pottery used in people's life.

      Exquisite painted pottery and painted pottery. The original color of the pottery body is red. Although the use of red pottery gradually decreased in each historical era, it has not been interrupted.

       When the pottery is fired to a certain extent, the nature of the flame in the kiln is controlled as oxidation flame. Under the roasting in oxidation atmosphere, most of the metal iron in the pottery is transformed into trivalent iron, the reduction ratio is low, and the fired pottery is red. Clay, which is pure and fine with little fine sand, is called argillaceous red pottery. It is mainly used as eating utensils and storage utensils. Clay mixed with fine sand can resist fire and is mainly used for cooking utensils. It is called sand mixed red pottery. In the history of Chinese archaeology, red pottery was first discovered in Yangshao village, Mianchi County, Henan Province in l921. Therefore, this Neolithic culture is called "Yangshao culture". There are red pottery, grey pottery, painted pottery and black pottery in Yangshao cultural site. Later, with the development of Chinese archaeology, red pottery was found in many cultural sites.