Looking back on the creation and construction of the history of Chinese philosophy qua discipline over the past hundred years,the influence of evolutionary theory has been quite profound.Modern Chinese scholars’views of philosophy,their special attention to the ancient philosophy of change,and their discussions of the relationship between the Confucian classics and pre-Qin philosophers’learning have been mostly inspired by evolutionary theory,and especially by its conception of freedom and competition.Is philosophy evolving or growing?Must its growth follow a certain series of developmental stages?Is its ultimate aim scientific and empirical?Through the investigation of works on the history of Chinese philosophy over the past hundred years,we can see firstly how the theory of evolution and related theories penetrate them,regulating their core content,their narrative framework,and their model of developmental stages,and secondly how it is necessary to consider how philosophy and its history should dispel the strong influence of evolutionism,abandoning the concept of"survival of the fittest"and thinking about how to realize the unity of tradition and modernity in Chinese philosophy.