儘管《尚書·多士》已有“惟殷先人,有册有典”的記載,但文獻的大規模書寫特别是大量編纂成書則開始於春秋,勃興於戰國。降至戰國中後期,不僅主要經典皆已成書,私家著述並亦載爲篇籍,而且書册之流傳、積聚也有了相當規模。同時,文獻書籍的散佚亦漸次發生。秦火以前,前代故籍和各家著述即有散失不見之篇;入漢以後,秦火不及之書亦大有不能整理恢復之册。成書、積聚和散佚三位一體,共同組成先秦時期文獻書籍發生、發展的核心内容。春秋戰國時期所以成爲中國文獻傳統和書籍生產的奠定、發生階段,具有物質、傳統、社會文化諸方面的原因:首先是竹簡成爲文獻的主要載體,簡牘書 Although “Book of History toast” has been recorded in “but Yin and Ancestors, there are books and records”, but the large-scale writing of the literature, especially a large number of compilation of the book began in the Spring and Autumn, booming in the Warring States. In the late Warring States Period, not only the major classics have been written into books, but private books have also been published as books, and the circulation of books has also accumulated a considerable amount. At the same time, scattered books and documents have also gradually occurred. Before the Qin fire, the previous generation of ancient books and various writings that have disappeared articles; into the Han, the book of the Qin fire is also a great deal to rectify the book. Into the book, accumulation and scattered three in one, together to form the pre-Qin literature and books, the core content of development. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it became the reason why the traditions of Chinese literature and the production of books were laid and took place in the aspects of material, tradition and social culture. The first was that Bamboo Slips became the main carrier of the literature,