The significance of archives

The meaning of this document is as follows:

Generally speaking, archives refer to various forms of original records with preservation value directly formed by people in various social activities. The original record is its essential attribute. China ancient archives have different titles in different dynasties. Shang dynasty called it a book, Zhou dynasty called it a clock, Qin and Han dynasties called it an ancient book, and Han and Wei dynasties later called it a document, a copy, a file and a book. After the Qing dynasty, it was often called "file", but now it is unified as "file".

1, the creator of the file. Archives are formed by official institutions, semi-official institutions, unofficial institutions and some individuals, families and clans.

2. The file comes from a document. Archives are conditionally transformed from documents. The "document" here refers to documents in a broad sense, that is, various materials formed in the form of words, charts, audio-visual images, etc. Archives and documents are different forms of the same thing in different value stages, which have homology and stage characteristics, as well as personality differences such as effectiveness, functionality and clutch.

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3. There are many forms of archives. The forms of archives include carriers, means of production and ways of expression. From the carrier, there are Oracle bones, epigraphy, silk books, simple books, paper, rubber magnets and so on; From the production methods, there are knife engraving, pen writing, printing, copying, photography, audio recording, video recording and so on. From the way of expression, there are words, charts, audio-visual and so on.

4. The essential attribute of archives. Archives have the characteristics of historical reproducibility, knowledge, information, politics, culture, sociality, education and value, among which historical reproducibility is its essential attribute and other characteristics are its general attributes. Therefore, the definition of archives can be simply expressed as: archives are the original documents that reproduce the true face of history.