Archives are not a social phenomenon that has always existed. In the long years of ignorance and barbarism, the possibility of producing files is very small. With the development of production and the invention and use of recording symbols, human society has transitioned to a civilized era, and people began to use various primitive recording symbols, pictures and characters to exchange ideas, transmit information and record social life. With the continuous development of production practice, the writing symbol system of recording language has been further improved, and more organized information records have appeared; The development of business has also promoted the emergence and application of more organized letters, which is a historical and logical necessity. After these relatively organized information records are used, they are sorted and saved for future reference, and then form files. With the development of society, the content of archives is increasingly rich, and the formation and name of archives are constantly changing.

Our great motherland has a long history, vast literature and books, long history of archives and rich archives information resources. Since the Chinese nation entered the period of historical civilization, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bamboo slips, silk books, gold books, iron coupons and even paper and ink documents are rare in the world. As early as 3000 years ago in Shang Dynasty, China kept the archives. Oracle Bone Inscriptions unearthed in Xiaotun Village, Anyang, Henan Province is an instrument used in Shang Dynasty at that time, and it is also an earlier written record found so far in the history of China. These words are engraved on the tortoise shell, so they are called Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is also called "Oracle Bone Inscriptions" because it is mostly the divination records of Shang royal family and written notes related to divination. Although divination was a superstitious activity, it was an important activity in Shang Dynasty under the historical conditions at that time. All sacrifices, military affairs, farming, animal husbandry, or anything about wind and rain, years, diseases, etc. It should be said with tortoise shells or ox bones. Therefore, Oracle Bone Inscriptions's content is quite rich, recording many deeds of the Shang Dynasty, reflecting the king's orders, servants, cruises, expeditions, farming, fishing and hunting, astronomical phenomena, medicine and other aspects. Most of these files about Oracle bones or tortoise shells are concentrated in the ancestral hall, some are arranged according to dynasties, some are kept separately from ox scabbard bones, and some are made into a book by piercing tortoise shells. It seems to be consciously kept in the archives in the warehouse. At present, the excavated archives of Oracle Bone Inscriptions are probably the relics of more than 270 years after Pan Geng moved to Yin and died, that is, from about 1300 BC to about 1 100 BC. Generally speaking, China has a history of several thousand years, mainly based on the files on these Oracle bones or tortoise shells, which have become our national treasures.