Archives in Ming and Qing Dynasties are divided into cabinet files, Ministry of War files, internal affairs files, Zongren files, National History Museum files, files in various places in the Qing Palace, and files in government offices of various ministries and institutes in Qing Dynasty. Among them, most of them are in Chinese, and there are old Manchu archives and diplomatic archives in Britain, France and Germany.

During the Republic of China, these archives with great historical value experienced various hardships. On the eve of liberation, the Kuomintang government transported about 400,000 Ming and Qing archives to Taiwan Province Province. There are about100000 files in Ming and Qing dynasties in China.

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Under the feudal autocracy, the imperial power was supreme, the country was politically ordinary, and everything was handled directly by the emperor. Therefore, the archives formed around the emperor's activities have become the core of national archives.

In the archives of Qing dynasty, these archives can be roughly divided into three parts: they were formed during the reign of emperors and officials, which were the main forms of documents and important means of communication in feudal countries to handle government affairs.