The first steps to ask the spirits to point out the location of the tree to be used for the keel, which is cut out according to a prescribed ceremony. Then they invite a bamboo-and-paper "King Shipmaster" to oversee the royal ship's construction.
第一件事要請神指點做龍骨的大樹所在，依一定儀式取下龍骨，要請來紙紮的「管船大王」負責監督王船的建造。