Tepung Tawar

Tepung tawar (Sambas) is customs of the Malay community regency Sambas, in the village river Kumpai Dusun Semayong. Tepung Tawar is usually performed to welcome the birth of a child in a family celebration as the limit should not exceed 20 days after the child was born. 

matrials to Tepung Tawar: small bowl to keep rice flour that has been diluted with water, lenjuang leaf, saffron rice and a platter to keep the bowl

Stage in ceremony Tepung Tawar:

1. First Day
        The first day is the day of manufacture of spices to be used in the ceremony, the mothers and girls together in a house made ​​condiments that have plans. usually in the event of all citizens are invited to help make it faster.
   
2.  Second Day
        This second day of the mothers and the girl who helped on the first day of work will continue on the second day of the cut vegetables, chicken, and beef will be cooked on the day dawn.
   
   
3.  The third day 
         The third day is a day of celebration, the event made ​​the first reading of the al-Qur'an verses, cutting the hair of the child (symbol), by an elder in the village. then eat together by way of a buffet.