依葫芦画瓢

lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as one's model (idiom) / fig. to follow the existing pattern without modification

to depend on / to comply with or listen to sb / according to / in the light of

Allium scorodoprasum / bottle gourd

calabash or bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) / hoist / generic term for block and tackle (or parts thereof) / muddled / (poker) full house

rush / reed / Phragmites communis

to draw / picture / painting / CL:幅[fu2],張|张[zhang1] / classifier for paintings etc / variant of 劃|划[hua4]

dipper / ladle