我国古代的文书立卷,大多是将某一案件所形成的所有文件组成一卷。这种一案一卷的做法,经历了元、明、清各朝。清代除按机构以问题为中心,并采用按文件时间顺序组卷外,还有按文件作者组卷的。如清代大臣交还宫中的硃批奏摺,就是以具奏人为单位立卷的。民国时期,立卷成为档案整理的重要一环。于三十年代,国民党政府为提高行政效率,推广“文书、档案连锁法”其内容之一就是改善“文书立卷工作。“立卷”一词在本世纪四十年代已为社会各界所公认。当时文书一般在归档后由档案部门立卷,立 Most of our ancient documents were made by rolling up all the documents formed by a certain case. This case of a volume of practice, has gone through yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. In addition to press agencies in the Qing Dynasty as the center, and the use of time-series documents according to the group, there are papers according to the paper volume. Such as the Qing Dynasty Minister sent back to the palace of Zhu Zhu Zhezhu, is to take the unit as a unitary volume. During the period of the Republic of China, making rolls became an important part of archiving. In the 1930s, in order to improve the administrative efficiency, the Kuomintang government promoted one of the contents of the “Document and Archives Chain Law” to improve “document rolling.” The term “roll paper” was recognized by all walks of life in the 1940s At that time, the documents were generally put up by the archives department after filing