The Precision of the Wu School Legacy Lu Hui was a practitioner of the Wu School, a distinction that separates his technical rigor from the more commercial impulses of the Shanghai School. While many of his contemporaries in the late Qing and early Republican eras leaned into the decorative, Lu Hui maintained a disciplined connection to the literati tradition. His work is defined by a versatility that spans landscapes, figures, and flower-and-bird compositions, yet he never drifted into mere imitation. He possessed the rare ability to absorb the aesthetics of the past without becoming a reli…