as the most important part of the house, in relation to the lower sections of the male front section and the female rear section, a place for a bedroom where procreation may takes place. Construction Rumoh Aceh are made entirely of wood, without nails. Traditionally, the floors are made of feather palm planks, the walls of thin woven bamboo, and the roof of thatched sago palm leaves. The entire construction is erected over pile construction which stands on stones. The ground under the house is compacted and made a bit higher than the area around the house, the soil is prevented from seeping away by edgings around this compacted soil. In the colonial era, the edgings were made of bottles planted into the ground bottom-up. When a daughter reached the age of seven, her father will start collecting building materials for the construction of the house where his daughter will live with her future husband. According to Acehnese custom, the girl has to live with her husband in the house of her mother until the first child is born. Afterwards she is allowed to move to her own house, within the compound of her mother. When her parents died, the daughter will acquire the rice fields and her parents' house. House construction begins with the erection of posts for the tallest middle section of the house, and then followed by the shorter posts for the front and rear section. Two of the house posts are named the "king post" (Acehnese: ) and "queen post" (Acehnese: ) respectively. Both are located between the middle section and the front section, the "king post" on the right (north) side, the "queen post" on the left (south) side. A small piece of gold is inserted into the "queen post", either at its top or on one of the floor binders when mortised through the "queen post" and fixed by the wooden tenon. These posts are set as if they are still living trees, with the trunk base at the bottom and crown tip above. The last to be built are the roof plates. Ropes are used to fix the roof plates to the beams in such a way that the roof can be detached quickly in case of fire. Woodcarving decorations are not part of the construction phase, as such constructions are added much later. Determining the starting time of the construction is a