Editing Aceh (section)

==Culture ==
[[File:Museum Aceh.JPG|thumb|[[Aceh Museum]] is the oldest museum in Aceh, built during the Dutch colonial era]]
Aceh has a variety of distinctive arts and culture.
=== Traditional weapon ===
*[[Rencong]] is a type of dagger, a traditional weapon of the Acehnese people. The shape resembles the letter L, and when viewed more closely the form is bismillah calligraphy.

In addition to rencong, the Acehnese people also possessed several other special weapons, such as sikin panyang, peurise awe, peurise teumaga, siwah, geuliwang and peudeueng.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Cultural Norms and Values Configuration in Acehnese Traditional Fishing Ritual {{!}} KnE Social Sciences|url=https://knepublishing.com/index.php/Kne-Social/article/view/4846/9725|access-date=2020-10-16|journal=Kne Social Sciences|date=August 2019|pages=189–198–189–198|doi=10.18502/kss.v3i19.4846|last1=Pratiwy|first1=Devi|volume=3 |issue=19 |s2cid=201382724|archive-date=19 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019123030/https://knepublishing.com/index.php/Kne-Social/article/view/4846/9725|url-status=live|doi-access=free}}</ref>

=== Traditional house ===
[[File:Rumoh Acèh di Piyeung Datu.jpg|thumb|[[Rumoh Aceh]], traditional house of Aceh]]
Aceh's traditional house is called ''[[Rumoh Aceh]]''. This house is a type of house on stilts with three main parts and one additional section. The three main parts of the Aceh house are the ''seuramoë keuë'' (front porch), ''seuramoë teungoh'' (middle porch) and ''seuramoë likôt'' (back porch). Another additional part is the ''rumoh dapu'' (kitchen house).<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Graf |first1=Arndt |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bot-AT4wZPAC |title=Aceh: History, Politics and Culture |last2=Schroter |first2=Susanne |last3=Wieringa |first3=Edwin |date=2010 |publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies |isbn=978-981-4279-12-3|access-date=24 October 2020}}</ref>

=== Dance ===
[[File:Ratoh Jaroe Dance.jpg|thumb|Ratoh Jaroe dance performance]]
Traditional Acehnese dances illustrate traditional heritage, religion, and local folklore. Acehnese dances are generally performed in groups, in which a group of dancers are of the same sex, and there are standing or sitting positions. When viewed from the accompanying music, the dances can be grouped into two types; namely accompanied by the vocal and percussion of the dancer's own body, and accompanied by an ensemble of musical instruments. Some dances that are famous at the national and even world level are dances originating from Aceh, such as the Rateb Meuseukat Dance and the [[Saman dance]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Fadillah |first1=Dani |last2=Nuryana |first2=Zalik |last3=Sahuddin |first3=Muhammad |last4=Hao |first4=Dong |date=2019-12-19 |title=International-Cultural Communication of the Saman Dance Performance by Indonesian Students in Nanjing |url=https://pubs2.ascee.org/index.php/viperarts/article/view/70 |journal=International Journal of Visual and Performing Arts|volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=98–105 |doi=10.31763/viperarts.v1i2.70 |issn=2684-9259 |doi-access=free |access-date=16 October 2020 |archive-date=17 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017205232/https://pubs2.ascee.org/index.php/viperarts/article/view/70 |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Cuisine ===
[[File:Mie Aceh with beef.jpg|thumb|[[Mie aceh]]]]
Acehnese cuisine uses combinations of spices found in Indian and Arabic cuisine, include ginger, pepper, coriander, cumin, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, and fennel. A variety of Acehnese foods are cooked with curry or curry spices and coconut milk, which are generally combined with meat, such as buffalo meat, beef, lamb, fish and chicken. Certain recipes have traditionally used cannabis as a seasoning; which is also found in some other Southeast Asian dishes such as in Laos, but now the material is no longer used. Dishes native to Aceh include [[nasi gurih]], [[mie aceh]], [[mi caluk]] and [[timphan]].

=== Literature ===
Aceh has a tradition of [[oral literature]], such as the folktale ''[[The king of the parakeets]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Rouf |first1=Irwan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cPJqcwuSOUkC |title=Rangkuman 100 Cerita Rakyat Indonesia: Dari Sabang Sampai Merauke |last2=Ananda |first2=Shenia |date=2013-01-01 |publisher=AnakKita |isbn=978-602-9003-82-6 |language=id}}</ref>

The oldest Acehnese manuscripts that can be found are from 1069 H (1658/1659 AD), namely Hikayat Seuma'un.

Before Dutch colonialism (1873–1942), almost all Acehnese literature was in the form of poetry known as Hikayat. Very little is in the form of prose and one of them is the Book of Bakeu Meunan which is a translation of the book Qawaa'id al-Islaam.

It was only after the arrival of the Dutch that Acehnese writings appeared in the form of prose, in the 1930s, such as Lhee Saboh Nang written by Aboe Bakar and De Vries. It was only afterward that various forms of prose appeared, but still remained dominated by the form of Hikayat.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Aceh: History, Politics and Culture |url=https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/408 |access-date=2020-10-16 |website=bookshop.iseas.edu.sg|archive-date=24 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024095448/https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/408 |url-status=live }}</ref>