Pyongyang, February 15 (KCNA) -- Among the intangible cultural heritages of the DPRK is a custom of greeting the lunar New Year's Day.

From olden times, the Korean people have enjoyed the lunar New Year's Day with various ceremonies, and this year's lunar New Year's Day falls on February 17.

The custom on this day consists mainly of ancestor-memorial service, greeting, garb, food for treating guests and folk game.

The Korean people would make good preparations ahead of the lunar New Year's Day. When the day comes near, they clean up their homes and prepare holiday food.

On the lunar New Year's Day, they pay a memorial service for their ancestors before anything else and then make bows to their elders at home and in villages as well as their teachers.

They also exchange New Year greetings with their friends, which is called well-wishing remarks.

Meanwhile, the families all get up early on the morning of the day and wear their new clothes, which are called the lunar New Year's garb.

Important in the lunar New Year's Day custom is food. The Korean people would prepare rice-cake soup and other various dishes as holiday food and gather with their families and relatives and neighbors to share those dishes.

The folk games for the day included yut, seesawing, kite-flying and sleighing.

The custom of the lunar New Year's Day was registered as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2015. -0-