The purpose of all martial arts is to make the practitioners better in combat.

Yang Style Tai Chi is the most popular. Other popular styles include Wu Style, Chen Style, Sun Style, and Wu/Hao Style.

These 5 are considered the primary styles of Tai Chi. However, there are many other styles that are variations and derivatives of these 5.

Yung Wu has written:

'Hao lin chi'

traditional Chinese physical exercises and breathing exercises.

The origin of the Chen family style of Tai Chi Chuan was not historically known until the seventeenth century. There are five major styles of Tai Chi Chuan: Chen style, Yang style, Hao style, Wu style, and Sun style.The Chen family style is the oldest and parent form of the five main tai chi chuan styles.