Like the process of learning China's calligraphy, beginners learn Tibetan calligraphy from regular script. Nine of the thirty letters in Tibetan belong to the "long foot type" (that is, the lower strokes extend longer). If a line is divided into three equal parts, the "long foot" must be written in the lower border, and other non-"long foot" letters are located in the upper part and the middle part of the line respectively. For another example, the width of a letter is contained in a vertical trisection with the same distance as the horizontal trisection, just like putting a letter in a very small "nine squares". Each part of the letter strokes in this Jiugongge has its own name, or "eye", "shoulder", or "abdomen" and "foot", each with its own characteristics. In Tibetan calligraphy, regular script is a kind of "head", and it is important that the font must be solemn and rigorous. The steps of learning regular script are: first, write 30 letters steadily, then practice writing 5 reflexive letters and 4 vowel symbols, and finally learn to add words up and down. So step by step, until every word, every line and even the whole article is written in a rigorous and neat way, it can be considered as meeting the requirements of regular script writing. Only after you have a certain foundation of regular script can you learn to write cursive script.
The requirements of Tibetan cursive script are complicated. Pay attention to the charm of each book and the pursuit of momentum flowing away, ups and downs. The "long foot" of each letter and the ","(frog) equivalent to the sound insulation symbol must be straightforward, so as to be "bent like a half arc". _ adjacent letters and adjacent syllables should be connected in one breath, and the density should be organized, which is neither inevitable nor tight. The vowels added below require that the upper part of each line should not be hung up, and the lower part of each line should not be hung up to give people a sense of integration. On the surface, Tibetan is a much simpler phonetic symbol than Chinese, but it is not easy to climb the peak of its calligraphy art, and it takes perseverance and study day and night to achieve something.
Tibetan writing posture is different from Chinese. People in China generally require _ to sit up straight, with two feet on the ground, on paper and elbows hanging. When writing in Tibetan, the paper is folded between the index finger and the little finger of the left hand, the palm is lifted on the knee and directly faces the left chest, and the pen is held in the right hand. The thumb and forefinger are required to be clamped about one inch away from the tip of the pen, the pen should be moderately elastic, the middle finger should be properly extended and contracted, and a pigeon eggs space should be left in the palm (similar to the writing method of Chinese characters).