东南亚地区史称“南海”、“南洋”。它不但包括了环绕南中国海的菲律宾、新加坡、马来西亚、安南(今越南、柬埔寨、老挝)、泰国,而且也包括了其东的印度尼西亚和其西的缅甸。东南亚诸国出土古代遗物以陶瓷最多。按其时代划分,大致有三个发展阶段:纪元前的原始陶器以绳纹陶为代表,与东亚各国无大差别,应属同一文化系统;汉魏六朝至唐宋时期 Southeast Asian regional history called “South China Sea ”, “Nanyang ”. It includes not only the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Annan (now Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos), Thailand, but also the east of Indonesia and its west of Myanmar, which surround the South China Sea. Southeast Asian countries unearthed ancient relics to ceramics up. According to its era, there are roughly three stages of development: the primitive pottery of the pre-eighteenth century represented by jacquard pottery is of the same cultural system as that of East Asian countries; and the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties to the Tang and Song Dynasties