The development of archives work to a certain scale constitutes archives cause. Under different cultural background and management system, the archives cause presents different forms. This paper reviews and summarizes the evolution form of the archives cause from the significance of restraint to the significance of scientific management, from the transactional to the cultural, from the "national model" to the "social model". The author thinks that the evolution form of the archival cause is from "inside" to "outside", from "rule of man" to "rule of law".