`Procession’, was one of the metal sculptures to appear and celebration both a person and event.

Zhang Li, a mid-18th century scholar of Hakka descent, while sailing to Sumatra with two companions, was blown off course, and forced to land in Penang. After their deaths, Zhang Li and his companions were buried in graves at what is now the Tua Pek Kong Temple in Tanjong Tokong, built in 1799.

Over a period of time the local Chinese began to venerate Zhang Li as a god of prosperity, bestowing on him the title, Tua Pek Kong. During the procession, that is carried on the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year from Lebuh Armenian to the Tanjung Tokong temple.