紫禁城的建设开始了。如此浩大的工程,当然要进行精心的设计。那么,紫禁城的设计者是谁呢?修建如此浩大的工程,参与者肯定不是寥寥几人,但其中最主要的一名设计师叫蒯祥。他是苏州吴县(今江苏吴县)人。蒯祥的父亲蒯富,就是一名技艺高超的木工,并在南京任总管建筑皇宫的“木工首”。蒯祥自幼随父亲学艺,青出于蓝而胜于蓝,在父亲告老还乡后,继承父业,在朝廷出任“木工首”。当时,进京的工匠中有一个香山帮,都是吴县香山人或其门徒。他们往往擅长木工,其中又不乏出色的泥水匠、漆匠、石匠、堆灰匠、雕塑匠、彩绘匠。蒯祥是 The construction of the Forbidden City began. So vast project, of course, to carry out meticulous design. So, who is the designer of the Forbidden City? To build such a huge project, certainly not a few participants, but one of the most important designer is Cheung Cheung. He is Suzhou Wu County (now Jiangsu Wuxian) people. Cheung rich father, rich, is a superb skill of carpentry, and Nanjing in charge of building the Royal Palace “carpentry first ”. Xiang Yu since childhood with her father learn arts, out of the blue and outranked the blue, after his father came home, inherit his father, in the court as “carpentry first ”. At that time, there was a Xiangshan gang among the artisans who came to Beijing. Both were Xiangshan people in Wu County or their disciples. They are often good at carpentry, of which there are no lack of excellent masons, painters, masons, pile carpenters, sculptors, paint artisans. Cheung is