砖字古代写作、、砖等形,最早见于马王堆西汉墓出土的《相马经》,但这并不意味着砖产生于西汉。砖的实物考古发掘中最早见于西周时期。1974年在陕西扶风县云塘西周晚期制骨作坊遗址中发现一块四钉砖,正反面饰粗绳纹,一面四角有锥形砖钉,应该是贴在墙壁上用的墙面砖。1988年在陕西岐山县 Brick ancient writing, brick and other forms, the earliest seen in Mawangdui Western Han Dynasty unearthed “Sutra”, but this does not mean that bricks produced in the Western Han Dynasty. The earliest archeological excavations of bricks were found in the Western Zhou Dynasty. In 1974 in Fufeng County, Shaanxi Province, the late Tang Dynasty necropsy workshop site found a four-stud brick, front and back decorated with coarse rope pattern, one side of the four corners of a conical brick, should be attached to the wall with a brick wall. 1988 in Qishan County, Shaanxi Province