“The Great Treatise” commentary to the Yijing has an early reference to the Hetu and Luoshu:
Heaven creates divine things; the holy sage takes them as models. Heaven and earth change and transform; the holy sage imitates them. In the heavens hang images that reveal good fortune and misfortune; the holy sage reproduces these. The Yellow River brought forth a map and the Lo River brought forth a writing; the holy men took these as models. (tr. Wilhelm and Baynes 1967:320)
Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors 8500 – 2070 B.C
Fuxi – Yi Jing, Bagua from the Yellow River Map (Hetu)
Yellow Emperor – Hidden Talisman (Yinfu Jing)
Jade Emperor – Heart Seal (Xinyin Jing), Embryonic Breath (Taixi Jing)
Xia Dynasty 207- 1600 B.C.
Yu the Great – Mudwalking (Yubu), Circle Walking (Bugang), and the magic square from the Lo River Writing (Loushu)
Shang Dynasty 1600 – 1046 B.C
Jiang Ziya – Six Secret Teachings
Zhou Dynasty 1046 – 771 B.C
King Wen – Yi Jing
Spring and Autumn Period 771 – 475 B.C
Laozi – Dao De Jing
Zhuangzi – Complete Works of Zhuangzi
Lie Yukou – Liezi
Confucius – The Doctrine of the Mean (Confucius)
Warring States Period 475 – 221 B.C.
Sunzi – The Art of War
Zou Yan – School of Yin-Yang, combined and systematized Yin-Yang and Five Elements
Qin Dynasty 221 – 206 B.C.
Han Fei – Han Feizi
Han Dynasty 206 B.C. – 280 A.D.
Hua Tuo – Dao Yin , Five Animals Frolics (Wuqinxi)
Huangdi Neijing – theoretical foundation of Chinese Medicine and its diagnostic methods
Three Kingdoms 220 – 260
Zhuge Liang – Thirty-Six Strategems (Sanshiliu Ji)
Jin Dyansty (Jurchen) 280 – 420
Song Dynasty 420 – 589
Da Mo – Tendon Changing Classics (Yijin Jing), Marrow Washing Classics (Xisui Jing) and the 18 Louhan Hands (Louhan Shiba Shou)
Sui Dynasty 589 – 618
Tang Dynasty 618 – 907
The Eight Immortals – Eight Pieces Brocade (Baduan Jin)
Lu Dongbin – Ten Trials of Patriarch Lu Dongbin, Hundred Words Stele, Secret of the Golden Flower, Spring in the Princess Garden
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms 907 – 960
Song Dynasty 960 – 1279
Wang Chongyang – Founder of Quanzhen School (Neidan),
Yuan Dynasty (Mongol) 1279 – 1368
Qiu Chuji – Founder of the Dragon Gate Lineage (Neidan), Neijing Tu
Ming Dynasty 1368 – 1644
Zhang Sanfeng [張三豐, Zhāng Sānfēng] – Neija and Neidan: Taijiquan, Xingyiquan, Baguazhang
Rootless Tree Poetry
Wang Zongyue [王宗岳, Wáng Zōngyuè] – lay disciple of Zhang Sanfeng, Long Fist
Qing Dynasty (Manchu) 1644 – 1911
Liu Yiming (1734–1821) – Daoist Forty-Nine Barriers
Ng Mui [五枚, Wǔ Méi]
Yim Wing Chun [嚴詠春, Yán Yǒngchūn]
Yang Luchan (1799 – 1872)
Yang Banhou (1837 – 1890) – Taiji Methods Explained (Taiji Fa Shou)
Yang Chengfu (1883 – 1936) – Taijiquan Applying Methods (Taijiquan Shiyong Fa)
Dong Haichuan (1797 – 1882)
Gao Yisheng (1866 – 1951)
Han Muxia (1877 – 1947)
Republic of China (Democracy) 1911 – 1949
Dr. Fred Min-an Wu (1916 – 2000)
People’s Republic of China (Communism) 1949 – present (2016)