Persimmon Garden is the former residence of Mr. Lu Shulun, a famous painter and national player of Weiqi in modern times. Deqiutang, located in Guzhen District, Jinxi Town, is named after two persimmon trees in the garden. The word "persimmon garden" was inscribed by Mr. Shen Peng, a famous modern calligrapher and chairman of China Calligraphers Association. The main building of the persimmon garden, Pianshi Mountain House, was built in Tongzhi period of Qing Dynasty. It was named the study because its owner had a stone pottery, an ancient seal of Pianshi Mountain House and an ancient lake stone.
The persimmon garden is now the painting and calligraphy art exhibition hall of the late Mr. Lu Shulun and his second son, Mr. Lu Jiaheng.
Lu Shulun (1900— 1980), whose real name is Lu Shuzi, Shu Lun, a disabled Taoist, an old man in Shiyuan, is from Jinxi, Kunshan. He is a hermit, good at poetry, calligraphy and painting, and good at Go. In 1930s, he played against Japanese players as a member of China Weiqi national team. Painter Chen Jiaan, a famous painter in modern times, is also a disciple of Lu Lianfu. He once taught in Suzhou Lunlang Academy of Fine Arts, and his landscape paintings have a Yuan flavor. The work "Qiushan Temple" was selected for 1937 National Art Exhibition.
Lu Jiaheng, the second son of Mr. Lu Shulun, is a member of China Calligraphers Association, vice chairman of Suzhou Calligraphers Association, curator of Kunluntang Art Museum in Kunshan, and a national first-class artist. His calligraphy works have won many awards in calligraphy competitions at home and abroad, and have been collected by many art galleries and museums at home and abroad.
Lu Jiaheng was trained by his father since childhood, and he was smart and eager to learn. Under the influence of his father, he inherited his father's footsteps and studied epigraphy and calligraphy. At the beginning of calligraphy, Dong Qichang and Zhao Ziang were the main characters. Later, he studied calligraphy and painting techniques such as Yan, Wu Changshuo and famous inscriptions, and later studied under Mr. Wu Mensong. He devoted himself to the study of inscriptions in the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties, devoted himself to the creation of official scripts and occasionally painted. Lu Jiaheng's calligraphy can be used in all aspects, especially official script. His official script works are noble in charm and bold in brushwork. This can be seen from his official script, which is vigorous, tenacious and ambitious. The vertical axis of a painting "The painter of ancient times is not a layman, but the scenery of today belongs to a poet" overflows the elegant charm of Zhao Ziang, the heroic bearing of the North Monument, the gloomy and vigorous texture, the vigorous and vigorous personality and the smooth and rich images. Pear trees are like a storm breaking the shore, and thousands of piles of snow are like eagles hitting the sky, with natural majestic posture. Lu Jiaheng's ink painting is also unique. His sketch exhibition is not small in scale, rich and elegant in content, distinctive and refined in features, novel in composition and rich in interest. Bone line is the life of Chinese painting. The reason why Lu Jiaheng's paintings have solid and agile lines, bright and elegant colors and shapes with both form and spirit is, in the final analysis, because his books are solid and profound. In his works, bamboo is evergreen all the year round. Although strong winds can't shake its festivals, and fog and frost can't take away its colors, Xia Feng has autumn dew and a lovely appearance.
The bamboo painted by Lu Jiaheng is beautiful, the strokes of bamboo poles are calm, and the shades of handwriting come into being one after another. The roundness of bamboo stems is very vivid. Bamboo leaves, like writing, go down one stroke at a time and fall down gently, and the circle of bamboo leaves jumps off the paper. In ink treatment, the bamboo leaves are deep and shallow, the surface is heavy and the back is light, the pen is less heavy, and the level of light before and heavy after is orderly. Even with bamboo tips, their pens are fine and tough. It is really "writing like a god, touching the place into spring." Look at its pictures, elegant, delicate and natural, wonderful, unique among contemporary young and middle-aged calligraphers.