Consulting is a comprehensive research and development through the knowledge and experience stored in some people's minds and the comprehensive processing of various information materials. Consulting produces the comprehensive benefits of intellectual labor and plays the role of consultant, staff officer and external brain for decision makers. Latin consultation means consultation, which means discussion and consultation. In ancient China, "consultation" and "question" were originally two words. Consultation is discussion, and investigation is investigation. Later, they gradually formed a compound word, which means inquiry, planning, discussion and consultation. As a social activity with personnel and services, it has developed in military, political and economic fields, and has become an important means to assist decision-making in social, economic and political activities, and has gradually formed an applied soft science.
Inquiry is a Chinese vocabulary, pronounced as chuí xún, honorific, which means that others have inquired about themselves, and used to be called "superior and subordinate". From Qingjiang Fan's "Master of Chinese Studies Qian Daxin": "Now I am in charge of politics and want to ask Daxin." Wang of the Qing Dynasty wrote "Copying Lent Record" Volume 4: "I am ashamed to ask and dare to attach it.