"I'm unfamiliar with the mistletoe they have here. All I know of it is that it is meant to be hung above doorways and kissed under? We have spirits of winter and ice, but ... it's not the same, and not particularly connected to Dongzhi either."

Huaisang's bewildered by all these foreign traditions, and he wonders what the common link is between the two cultures of trees and mistletoe. "What are ginger-bread-cookies?" He knows of ginger and bread, but cookies are too different in his culture for him to make the connection.