历史档案对教学和科学研究工作、对发展我国的科学文化事业部具有重要的作用。这是因为它们具有如下的特点: 一是有很大的广泛性。历史档案本身涉及的范围不是某一个题目,不是某一个人物,而是涉及到不同历史时期的政治、经济、文化、军事、科技等各个方面。二是它有一种罕见性。一般书刊已为人所易得习见,而历史档案过去人们接触较少。它所记录的内容往往使人产生新鲜的感觉,使人可从这些罕见资料中搜检或发现一些原来未曾想到或并不了解的问题,并在一定条件下得到解决。三是它的可靠性。我们不能说历史档案百分之百都可靠,其中也有些浮夸和歪曲的地方,但它终究比经过加工或参杂主观臆断的第二手资料可靠程度大。 Historical archives play an important role in teaching and scientific research for the development of China’s science and culture department. This is because they have the following characteristics: First, there is great breadth. The scope of the historical archives itself is not a subject, not a certain person, but involves various aspects of history, political, economic, cultural, military, science and technology. Second, it has a rare nature. General books and magazines have been easy to learn, and the history of the file in the past less contact with people. The content it records tends to give people a fresh feeling of being able to search through these rare sources or to find something that they did not originally think or understand, and to solve it under certain conditions. Third, its reliability. We can not say that historical archives are 100% reliable, some of them are exaggerated and distorted, but after all they are more reliable than second-hand materials that are subjectively processed or mixed.