2006-12-23 23:46:29 · 16 answers · asked by adastraperaspera 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
It is not really know why day after Christman is called "Boxing day" but here are the best explanations I could find:
Despite its name, Boxing Day, which is celebrated on December 26 in Great Britain, has nothing to do with pugilistic competition. Nor is it a day for people to return unwanted Christmas presents. While the exact origins of the holiday are obscure, it is likely that Boxing Day began in England during the Middle Ages.
Some historians say the holiday developed because servants were required to work on Christmas Day, but took the following day off. As servants prepared to leave to visit their families, their employers would present them with gift boxes.
Church Alms Boxes
Another theory is that the boxes placed in churches where parishioners deposited coins for the poor were opened and the contents distributed on December 26, which is also the Feast of St. Stephen.
As time went by, Boxing Day gift giving expanded to include those who had rendered a service during the previous year. This tradition survives today as people give presents to tradesmen, mail carriers, doormen, porters, and others who have helped them.
The Day after Christmas
Boxing Day is December 26, the day after Christmas, and is celebrated in Great Britain and in most areas settled by the English (the U.S. is the major exception), including Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Good Luck!!!
2006-12-23 23:53:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was just up in Canada last week & asked this question. I was told that, you know how in America the biggest shopping day is the day after Thanksgiving?
Well, in Canada, their biggest shopping is the day after Christmas. They buy so much that they have to carry it all in boxes...'cuz their arms are so overflowing with purchases.
2006-12-24 00:52:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is the day after Christmas whne people used to box up their old stuff and give it to the poor.
2006-12-23 23:48:26 · answer #3 · answered by Gone fishin' 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Trying hard to be festive and merry, relatives "cave- in" under the enormous pressure that being "nice/pleasant" for 3days in a row to each other has on them,and must beat the merry hell out of each other before they explode completely,hence boxing day!
2006-12-24 00:05:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are disparate theories as to the origins of the term. The extra common memories comprise: It replaced into the day whilst human beings would supply a contemporary or Christmas 'container' to those who had worked for them during the 300 and sixty 5 days. this continues to be accomplished in Britain for postmen and paper-boys - regardless of the indisputable fact that now the 'container' is generally given till now Christmas, no longer after. In feudal situations, Christmas replaced right into a rationalization for a accumulating of prolonged families. all of the serfs would collect their families in the manor of their lord, which made it extra handy for the lord of the valuables handy out annual stipends to the serfs. regardless of each thing the Christmas events on 26 December, the lord of the valuables would supply functional products which includes textile, grains, and kit to the serfs who lived on his land. each family members would get a container crammed with such products the day after Christmas. below this rationalization, there replaced into no longer something voluntary approximately this transaction; the lord of the manor replaced into obliged to offer those products. because of the containers being given out, the day replaced into called Boxing Day. In England some years in the past, it replaced into common prepare for the servants to hold containers to their employers whilst they arrived for their day's paintings on the day after Christmas. Their employers would then positioned funds in the containers as specific end-of-3 hundred and sixty 5 days presents. it particularly is in comparison with the prominent-day seen Christmas bonuses. The servants carried containers for the money, consequently the call Boxing Day. In church homes, it replaced into classic to open the church's donation container on Christmas Day, and the money in the donation container replaced into to be dispensed to the poorer or decrease type voters on day after at present. thus, the "container" in "Boxing Day" comes from that lockbox wherein the donations have been left. Boxing Day replaced into the day whilst the wren, the king of birds,[3] replaced into captured and put in a container and presented to each enjoyed ones in the village whilst he would be asked for a effective 3 hundred and sixty 5 days and a stable harvest. See Frazer's Golden Bough.
2016-12-15 07:17:22 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure ... but that question came up in my family ... here are the best guesses
- Boxes that the gifts came in need to be tossed
- Box up broken toys that were new the day before
- Fights (boxing) start between sibblings about who owns which identical toy
2006-12-23 23:53:22 · answer #6 · answered by wizebloke 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I read the explanation in the newspaper. Because people have to keep the gifts they received for Christmas, in BOXES. tO BE SET aside, cleared, stored.
2006-12-23 23:48:51 · answer #7 · answered by chelsea 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
boxing day is an English celebration
2006-12-24 00:06:42 · answer #8 · answered by Alistair A 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I asked this a bit ago, but it has run out now, here are my answers
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ao2bdijf5MMtDIBBmCgvaUfsy6IX?qid=20061218012739AA3y2yR
Hope they help, they helped me, and hope the link works!
Sorry If It Doesnt!
2006-12-24 00:42:13 · answer #9 · answered by beckylh92 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's when Mike Tyson yells out "Where are my frickin presents!! I got bills to pay."
2006-12-24 00:28:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋