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2007-12-25 13:20:22 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
December 26th.
It was the day when people would give a present or Christmas box to those who had worked for them throughout the year.
In feudal times, Christmas was a reason for a gathering of extended families. All the serfs would gather their families in the manor of their lord, which made it easier for the lord of the estate to hand out annual stipends to the serfs. After all the Christmas parties on 26 December, the lord of the estate would give practical goods such as cloth, grains, and tools to the serfs who lived on his land. Each family would get a box full of such goods the day after Christmas. Under this explanation, there was nothing voluntary about this transaction; the lord of the manor was obliged to supply these goods. Because of the boxes being given out, the day was called Boxing Day.
(Interesting question! Well done.)
2007-12-25 13:28:08 · answer #1 · answered by franja 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Boxing Day is a public holiday celebrated in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia and many other members of the Commonwealth of Nations on December 26, the day after Christmas Day; or alternatively on the next weekday after Christmas. Boxing Day is a traditional celebration, dating back to the middle ages, and consisted of the practice of giving out gifts to employees, the poor, or to people in a lower social class. The name has numerous folk etymologies; the Oxford English Dictionary attributes it to the Christmas box; the verb box meaning: "To give a Christmas-box (colloq.); whence boxing-day.
2007-12-25 21:24:28 · answer #2 · answered by Jessica 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A day of boxes?
2007-12-25 21:29:19 · answer #3 · answered by Amia Dylan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
boxing day stand for the day after xmas that you go shopping and box with other people for the items you want to buy lol
2007-12-25 22:02:20 · answer #4 · answered by marisanj 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone into boxing laces up the gloves and whoops each other. Including grandma and grandpa.
2007-12-25 21:25:21 · answer #5 · answered by J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boxing day was a day when servants would be given gifts.
2007-12-25 21:23:25 · answer #6 · answered by Mandie 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The day after Christmas...
2007-12-25 21:23:21 · answer #7 · answered by tandkalexander 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
boxing day was named because this because it was the day gifts were 'boxed' up and put away as was the tree.
2007-12-25 21:23:40 · answer #8 · answered by pissy_old_lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i was told it was the day that Ali fought George the griller foreman,they called it the mumble in the jungle,i was told this is true,cross my heart.
2007-12-25 21:28:13 · answer #9 · answered by Johnpet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Day
more fun
http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/boxing.asp
2007-12-25 21:26:08 · answer #10 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋