The history of ceramic production in Yixing has a long and distant origin. Based on documentary materials from various sources and archaeological excavation surveys that have accumulated cultural relics, the pottery industry in the Yixing region began in the primitive society period. According to the census data of ancient kiln sites distributed throughout Yixing, the origin of Yixing's ceramic industry should be no later than the Neolithic Age of five thousand years ago. In Luotuodun and Tangnan Village of Guijing Township in Zhangzhu District, as well as in Kanli Village and Yuanfan Village (lower layer) of Yudong Township in Yiding District, red-slipped pottery bowls made of fine clay, coarse red pottery jars with sand temper, and pottery vessels characterized by ox-nose-style lug handles have been found. These coexisted with polished stone axes and stone adzes in Neolithic sites. The main characteristics of these pottery pieces are consistent with the features of the "Majiabang Culture Type" of the Taihu Lake basin and Qiantang River basin. The abundant cultural relics discovered through archaeological surveys demonstrate that as experience in production struggles continuously enriched, the pottery-making techniques of the primitive inhabitants engaged in Yixing's pottery industry also continuously evolved, developing in step with other clan societies around Taihu Lake. At the same cultural site, such as in Dayao (middle layer) of Yuanfan Village near Dingshu, one can clearly observe a developmental process: how the earliest low-temperature red pottery, hand-built by the coiling method and fired in a fully oxidizing flame, transitioned to wheel-thrown grey pottery fired in a reducing atmosphere, or black pottery fired using the carbon-permeation method that produced a lustrous black finish. The stone tools excavated alongside the pottery prove that the cultural periodization of this site should be classified within the "Hemudu Culture" period. Later still, cultural sites where geometric stamped soft pottery coexisted with polished stone tools and small bronze artifacts, dating to approximately the Shang-Zhou transition, have also been discovered in several locations around the Dingshu area, such as along the eastern edge of Shoushan Village in Zhangze Township and on the hillside of Dashu Village. During the investigation of ancient kiln sites distributed throughout the region, large quantities of broken pottery shards have been discovered. In addition, the excavation and unearthing of the "Han Dynasty kiln site" at Chuanbu Township and Xishan, the "Six Dynasties celadon kiln site" at the northern foot of Nanshan, the "ancient celadon kiln site" at Tangshu Village, the "celadon kiln site" at Junshan, and the "Tang Dynasty ancient dragon kiln site" at Renshu have also yielded several