This paper takes traditional building materials, bricks and tiles, as the research object, based on the vision of design, uses the research methods of longitudinal textual research and horizontal comparison to systematically sort out the development context and application scenarios of ancient bricks and tiles. Through the quantitative analysis of the size of the narrow brick, it is clear that the size of the narrow brick has become smaller, fixed and more human-friendly, and the narrow brick has gradually replaced large hollow bricks as the mainstream since the Han Dynasty. With the creation of wedge-shaped bricks and square-shaped bricks and the popularity of large semicircular tiles, brick and tile production in the Song Dynasty developed towards a standardized path. In this way, the interrelationship between ancient firing techniques and the development of building materials is explored.