我国档案和档案工作虽有四千余年的悠久历史,但在中国封建社会长期停滞情况下,又受帝国主义的侵略,沦为半封建半殖民地社会,影响了档案工作不能长足发展,只是靠个别管理档案的人员自己的经验摸索着去进行工作,没有系统的总结,谈不上什么理论与研究。“档案”一词,到十七世纪后才出现。所谓甲骨档案、金石档案、缣绵档案、石刻档案、贝叶档案、竹简档案、外国的泥土档案、纸草档案,羊皮档案等等,都是后人按档案的载体命名的叫法. Although the archives and archival work in China have a long history of more than four thousand years, under the long-standing stagnation of the feudal society in China, they were again subjected to imperialist aggression and reduced to semi-feudal and semi-colonial society, which hindered the rapid development of the archival work, Management personnel file their own experience groping for work, there is no systematic summary, not to mention what the theory and research. The word “archives” appeared only after the seventeenth century. The so-called Oracle archives, stone files, 缣 cotton files, stone files, Bayeux files, bamboo files, foreign soil files, paper files, sheepskin files, etc., are descendants of the file carrier named.