Singkawang is well-known as the city of thousand temples. This city has many temple that used by Chinese people to pray. Singkawang city is also known as the duplicate of Hongkong in China or Indonesian China – town. This is because there are many Chinese people live there as well as preserving their culture through many Chinese celebrations.
One of the celebrations is called Cap Go Meh. This is a kind of celebration or ceremonial that conduct in every fifteen days after Chinese New Year celebration that known as Imlek. The ceremonial also meaning that the Imlek celebration is over. In this celebration there are many attraction performs in the up-town from Barongsai or the dragon show, until Tatung performance, the person who has great and mystical power that resistant to sword and nails.