What are not administrative documents?

On the past life of administrative documents.

To draft and write administrative official documents, we must first understand the basic knowledge of official documents. Although many of our colleagues in the workplace have written many articles, they may not know much about the process of the emergence, formation and development of official documents.

As we all know, Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins, discovered in Xiaotun Village, Anyang, Henan Province at the end of 19, is recognized as the earliest ancient writing in the world. But what you may not know is that Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the bud of the earliest administrative documents.

In the early Xia and Shang Dynasties, whenever an important event or ruler wanted to carry out important activities, divination was carried out and the results were engraved on the Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Because this divination instrument is centered on the royal family, it can be called an official document. This kind of Oracle bone inscriptions covers a wide range, from national politics, war, economic and social development to imperial life and daily weather changes.

By the Zhou Dynasty, the state organs were strengthened, the administrative division of labor was stricter, and the laws and regulations were more complete. Reflected in official documents, the types of official documents have gradually formed, and there have been such types as "letters", "oaths" and "deeds", as well as parallel documents between vassal States and their officials.

After Qin unified the six countries, due to the more complicated state affairs, more comprehensive etiquette and the basic policy of "sharing books and cars", the types of official documents increased, and the names, uses, styles and procedures of official documents were unified and strict. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the seal of official documents was changed from clay seal to Zhu seal, and there were also systems such as riding and sewing. The word "official document" officially appeared in this period.