Once when he was on a visit to Hualien with his wife, he spotted what appeared to be a grimy piece of "rotted wood" sitting outside the entrance to a curio store. But Lu recognized in the piece the antique simplicity of a naturally formed wooden ju-i, and he seized on it like a treasure.
有一回，他與妻子同去花蓮旅遊，看到一家藝品店門口擺著一枝沾滿灰塵的「爛木頭」，然而在陸炳文眼中卻覺古樸天成，是一把天然的木如意，當寶一般購得。