《现代汉语词典》对“官”的解释是,“政府机关或军队中经过任命的、一定等级以上的公职人员。”但古代的“官”从何而来,如何形成官制,它又经历了怎样的流变,即便时下的为官者,恐也没多少人能说清。在社会形态这台庞大的机器中,一个个官好比是带动机器运转的一个个齿轮,其品质效能如何,直接关系到机器是否能良性高效地运转。机器运转缓慢,噪声杂音较大,意味着已有相当数量的齿轮品质效能出了问 The definition of “official” in the Dictionary of Modern Chinese is “an appointed public official above a certain level in a government agency or army.” But how did the ancient “official” come from and come about? Officials, it has experienced what kind of change, even if the moment for the official, fear not many people can say it. In the social form of this huge machine, one officer is like a gear that drives the machine running. The quality and efficiency of the machine is directly related to whether the machine can work in a benign and efficient manner. The slow machine operation, the noise noise is larger, means that there is a considerable number of gear quality and performance problems