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Xindian culture () was a Bronze Age culture in the Gansu and Qinghai provinces of China. Xindian culture is dated ca. 1500–1000 BCE, a radiocarbon testing of an artefact produced a date around 1000 BCE, Cihai ("Sea of Words"), Shanghai cishu chubanshe, Shanghai 2002, , p. 1885 which roughly corresponds to the Western Zhou period of the Central Plain area (in the middle and lower course of the Yellow River).
Xindian culture belongs to the painted pottery cultures found in Central Asia, India, and China, among others.
Xindian culture postdates the Qijia culture; the pottery evidence demonstrates a cultural continuity, (1999). 9780521470308, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521470308 p. 901. though genetically it is not related with it.
The shape of some Xindian culture pottery vessels, as well as the decorative patterns on pottery reveal correlations with the Tangwang culture.
In the same area in close proximity are distributed early sites of the contemporary neighboring Siwa culture, though Xindian culture and Siwa culture followed their own paths of development. The later Xindian culture expanded westward and came closer to the Kayue culture, it was possibly absorbed by the Kayue culture.
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