砖,是中国古代的主要建筑材料之一,属于陶类制品。目前发现中国最早的砖,是陕西扶风云塘出土的西周晚期残砖。目前发现中国最早的砖文,见于山东邹城战国时期邾国故城遗址出土的两块刻字砖(附图一),字体与金文相似。早期(约西汉初期前)的砖文,大多为戳印,少数为刻划,字数很少,与同时的瓦、陶器铭文相似,过去的文献常统称为陶文。西汉武帝后,砖文的内 Brick, is one of the main building materials in ancient China, belonging to pottery products. It is found that the earliest brick in China is the residual brick from the late Western Zhou Dynasty unearthed in Fufeng, Shaanxi Province. At present, the earliest brick texts found in China are found in two lettering bricks unearthed at the Ru Guogu Site in the Zoucheng Warring States Period in Shandong (figure 1). The fonts are similar to those of the Jin text. Early (about before the beginning of Western Han Dynasty) brick, mostly stamped, a small number of characters, very few words, and at the same time tile, pottery inscriptions similar, the past literature often referred to as Tao Wen. After the Western Han Dynasty Emperor, the brick text