陶土砖是中国几千年来最普遍应用的建筑砌墙材料，因其过度消耗的粘土资源，而被国家禁止应用低温烧制的工艺，并用于砌墙体。随着今年工业的进步，新一代的陶土砖，采用高温烧制，并运用现代化辊道窑或隧道窑的工业制造流程，并将其功用改为外墙黏贴，比如劈开砖、陶砖等，也有时候被称为陶土砖。
Clay brick is the most commonly used building material in China for thousands of years. Because of its excessive consumption of clay resources, it is forbidden by the state to use low-temperature firing technology for building walls. With the development of industry this year, the new generation of clay brick is made by high-temperature firing, using the industrial manufacturing process of modern roller kiln or tunnel kiln, and changing its function to external wall sticking, such as splitting brick, ceramic brick, etc., which is also sometimes called clay brick.