Tai Chi was created by Fu Xi.
Tai Chi is an important concept and category in the history of Chinese culture. Judging from the literature we have seen so far, it was first seen in "Zhuangzi": "The great road is above Tai Chi but not high; it is below the six poles. It is not deep; it is innate to heaven and earth but not permanent; it is longer than ancient times but not old.” Later it was found in "Yi Zhuan": "Yi has Tai Chi, which gives birth to two rituals. Two rituals give rise to four images, and four images give birth to Bagua." After Zhuangzi, people in later generations gradually learned about Tai Chi based on the discussion of "Tai Chi" in "Zhouyi·Xici" The mature Tai Chi concept has truly absorbed the essence of Zhuangzi's chaos philosophy.
Similar to Zhuangzi’s philosophy of chaos, the concept of Tai Chi, an attitude towards life that looks at the phenomenon and essence of all things in a trance, and this way of thinking itself, actually contains sober and wise philosophy, and its ultimate The purpose is to hope that human activities will comply with the great virtues and the laws of nature, not be restricted by external things, "do nothing but do everything", and finally reach a spiritual realm of tranquility and harmony that tolerates nothing.
"Yixi Ci Zhuan" (the version unearthed from Mawangdui in the Western Han Dynasty) records: "In ancient times, Fuxi was the king of the world. He looked up to observe the images in the sky, looked down to observe the laws on the earth, and observed birds and beasts. According to the suitability of the text and the place, the body is taken from the near side and the things from the far side, so the content of "Bagua" was started. It means the process of forming a hexagram. First there is Tai Chi, before the yarrow is separated (yarrow is used as a tool for divination). After the yarrow is divided, the two Yao of Yin and Yang are formed, which is called Liangyi. When the two lines are added together, there are four possible images, which are called four images. By adding a line from each of them, it becomes Bagua. What we are talking about here is the process of drawing Bagua. It was originally related to astronomy, meteorology and the distance and direction of the region. Later, it was further explained in a philosophical way by Neo-Confucianists in the Song Dynasty.