For instance, the book Han Fei Zi describes Shun, King of Yu, eating on ware coated with black lacquer, and notes that Yu, King of Xia, had ceremonial vessels that were coated with black lacquer on the outside and red lacquer on the inside (both kings lived in the late third millennium BC).
關於漆器的起源，在《韓非子》一書中，虞舜在木製食器外塗上黑漆，而夏禹使用的祭器除了外塗黑漆，更在器皿內彩繪朱漆。