In the history of hundreds of years development, pottery making in Bien Hoa has been known as a highly symbolic cultural value in Dong Nai. The outstanding feature of Bien Hoa pottery is the combination of ash glaze and colorant from copper alloy, red stone glaze color, black earth ceramic. Therefore, Bien Hoa ceramic products are of high aesthetics, are liked and appreciated by many people

Bien Hoa pottery has a great cultural and economic value, this is one of the traditional professions with the highest added value, especially bronze glaze and famous black earth ceramic. Because from the stage of prototyping, raw materials to production are available locally. Type of soil used to produce black ceramics is clay typical of the locality and some neighboring areas. This soil type has both the ductility, the strength, and the medium to give the characteristic color of the black ceramic products here.

Two important factors that make up the distinctive beauty of Bien Hoa pottery are high quality kaolin and colored clay raw materials plus the skill of a team of skilled potters. It can be said that Bien Hoa potters' talent is that they have absorbed and integrated into the quintessence of cultures in their products. Characteristics of this ceramic line are handcrafted stages and firing by wood kilns at a temperature of about 1 thousand 0oC for about 3-4 days and nights. In such an environment, under the impact of high temperatures, the smoke and dust of the fire hitting the product creates a shiny, black ceramic glaze that is durable over time.

Black pottery was famous in the pottery village of Tan Van (now in areas such as: Tan Van, Buu Hoa, Hoa An, Bien Hoa City) hundreds of years ago. Bien Hoa Black Pottery has affirmed the position and specificity of the famous traditional pottery village in the Southeast. Currently, Bien Hoa's black ceramic line is mostly exported to the US and European markets.

Thanh Xuân