1 sugar-coated Chinese hawthorn or other fruit on a stick

2 tanghulu

1 calabash or bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria)

2 hoist

3 generic term for block and tackle (or parts thereof)

4 muddled

5 (poker) full house

1 aloe vera

1 winter bamboo shoots (smaller and tenderer as a result of being dug out before they come out of the soil)

1 tanghulu

2 candied fruits on bamboo skewers dipped in sugar syrup, a common Chinese snack

1 lit. to draw a gourd from the model (idiom)

2 fig. to copy sth mechanically without attempt at originality

1 lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as one's model (idiom)

2 fig. to follow the existing pattern without modification

1 lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as a model (idiom)

2 fig. to copy slavishly

1 lit. after rain, the spring bamboo (idiom); fig. rapid new growth

2 many new things emerge in rapid succession