Read the text "Grab Spring Water" and talk about what the text mainly says. Why grab the spring water?

1. As the saying goes, "Spring rain is as expensive as oil". Spring rain brings people the hope of bumper harvest all year round, and it is so rare and expensive. Therefore, the custom of "grabbing spring water" has emerged in some areas. "Grab" here means to compete for the first place, showing a cheerful mood. Grabbing spring water expresses people's yearning for a better life.

2. Grab the Spring Water is a text in the second volume of the fourth grade Chinese textbook, written by Wu Ran.

It is a custom to grab the spring water.

4. Time: Lunar beginning of spring

5. Meaning: Bless a year of peace.

6. Content: Grabbing spring water is a traditional festival of the Gelao people. On this day, the unmarried young men and women of the Gelao nationality in the village came to the well or the river in the dark when the rooster crowed all over, and each person gently scooped water with a bowl, which was called "spring water". Generally, you should scoop 12 bowl of clear water every time, which symbolizes December, peace every month and good health all year round. This activity is called "grabbing spring water" by the Gelao people. When you start to scoop water, you should shout "spring!" " When you go home with the spring water, you should walk and shout, "The spring water has come to my house!" " "Come into the room and boil the spring water to make tea. This is called drinking "fragrant tea with spring water". The whole family can drink this kind of tea, which is considered to be the most auspicious, to ensure a safe year.

The full text of "Grab Spring Water":

Spring has come, and the snow and ice on the top of the mountain have melted.

There are wild flowers, the fragrance of mountain grass and forest moss, happiness, happy shadows and clouds, and spring is ringing in the mountains!

This is the spring ringing, this is the annual spring ringing, singing in the mountains!

Oh, in the early morning of early spring, we will go to the mountain behind the village to "grab the spring water", to grab the sunshine that melts the mountain, the green wind, the flight of eagles, the singing of birds, and the spring water that flows out from the dense cracks in the trees!

A custom as old as a mountain village.

No wonder you want to grab the spring water.

When the rooster crowed for the first time, grandma woke my brother and me. Bring a pitcher, a basket of pine wool and a string of firecrackers. My brother and I went to grab the spring water.

The mountain village has not woken up yet. The stars are tired and scattered, even those hanging on the branches of old trees will fall. The cold morning gave me chills. The mountain forest behind the village is shrouded in mysterious black, and the faint starlight gives it a clear layer. There is a bird chirping in the distance. There seems to be a lot of footsteps ...

Suddenly, firecrackers sounded in the mountains, scratching and crunching!

"Grab the spring water!" "Grab the spring water!" Shouts, laughter and voices filled the silent mountains.

Ah, there were others before us! I ran away with my brother.

It was Tracy, A Xing and Wang De!

The friends laughed. My brother and I quickly scooped up the spring water, lit firecrackers and shouted, "We have a spring water! Grab the spring water! "

Everyone shouted together, "We have a spring! Grab the spring water! " Ah, the pitcher is full of spring water, laughter and shouts, and the first touch of morning light and sunrise. All the way covered with green pine branches, with the moist fragrance of spring, we walked out of the mountains and took the spring water home. ...