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探讨档案起源,我们面临某些困难。首先,它并非是一个纯粹的档案学问题,而是一个涉及到考古学、民族学、民俗学、文字学和历史学等学科内容的论题。更为复杂的是,许多具体的问题在所涉及的学科内部也属于争论的课题。其次,它不是单纯的实证材料或搜集佐证史料问题,而是与总体档案观念（什么是档案）和档案历史观密切相联的问题。尽管存在这些困难,但是,我们如果能够对前人乃至同时代人的探讨成果进行系统的研究;从中寻找到某种超越这些困难的方法,却不是不可能的。
We are facing some difficulties when discussing the origin of archives. First of all, it is not a purely archival science issue, but a topic that deals with such disciplines as archeology, ethnology, folklore, philology and history. More complicated is that many specific issues within the subject involved also belong to the subject of debate. Second, it is not a mere empirical material or a collection of corroborating historical materials, but rather an issue closely linked to the concept of the overall file (what is a file) and the concept of file history? Despite these difficulties, it is not impossible for us to systematically study the achievements of our predecessors and even our contemporaries in the course of finding a way beyond these difficulties.