A pottery bell is a simplified pottery musical instrument with a handle. When using it, hold the bell handle in one hand, and strike the bell body with a stick or mallet in the other hand to make a sound. There are very few pottery bells in archaeological discoveries, and its shape is very close to the bronze musical instrument nao of the Shang Dynasty, so some people call it "pottery bell".
Pottery bell is said to be a ringing device used by ancestors to worship gods, mountains, lakes, wind and rain, and stars, and to pray for wind and rain. It was later replaced by a bronze cymbal.

The Doumen pottery bell pictured above was unearthed in 1955 in Doumen Town, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. It is a cultural relic of the Neolithic Age (Longshan Culture, about 2300 BC to 2000 BC), with a total height of 12.5 cm.
The body of the pottery bell is short and wide, rectangular in shape, and approximately oval in cross section. The abdomen is hollow, the front and rear walls are slightly thinner, the two side walls are slightly thicker, and the lower mouth is flush. Cylindrical solid Yong, the top is thick and the bottom is thin, and the top is round. The dance is flat, where the face and the dance meet, there is a round hole on each side, which can be hung.
The excavation of this cultural relic has provided important material basis and clues for the study of instrumental music in musicology and the history of Chinese music, and has academic significance and research value that cannot be ignored.