Practice two

2. During the Spring Festival, we will prepare abundant cate*, which includes fish, chicken, meat and so on. The fish is a symbol of more* every year.

* [ This is pretty funny! So my browser tells me that "cate" is misspelled, which means my browser's dictionary thinks it's not a word. Even in my own brain I thought it was not a word; I thought maybe it was a typo. A real dictionary tells me that a "cate" is a dainty or choice food. This is a very, very old word that I have never heard before, and I'm amazed that you found it. I guess technically it means exactly what you mean to say, but I can't imagine any English speaker having any idea what it is. If you give me the Mandarin word you are thinking of, I can try to figure out a better word for you. ]

†[ I have a feeling that your use of the word "more" here is akin to how we use the word"abundance" in English. If you give me the Mandarin word you are thinking of, I should be able to figure that out. ]

3. We will prepare many snacks, such as watermelon seeds, sunflower seeds, candy, brown rice sugar, and peanuts, and so on.

4. We will drink rice wine, which is made from glutinous rice*.

*[ I believe "glutinous" is technically the right word, but I think most English speakers would react the same way I first did and think that you were talking about "gluten". That's actually silly for us to do since gluten comes from wheat, not rice, but the way the word sounds in our heard just makes us think of all this gluten talk in the news and on the web. If you said "sticky rice" we would know immediately what you mean. ]

5. After the Nian Ye Fan, we will light firecrackers and shoot fireworks.