At a Neolithic site at Hemadu in Yuyao County, Zhejiang, archeologists have dug up a speckled and peeling wooden bowl, the outside surface of which was covered with a light, shiny red lacquer. It proves that lacquer ware has at least a 7000-year history in China.
而根據民國六十六年發掘的浙江省余姚縣河姆渡新石器遺址中，有一隻斑剝的木碗，外壁依稀有著淡淡光澤的朱漆，這隻朱漆碗證明瞭漆器在中國至少有七千年的使用歷史了。