The Boxing Day

The Boxing Day

The Boxing Day, it sound that is something invented by someone crazy. You may think that is a joke that day, but not because the Boxing Day is an old tradition of England and the old colonies of it. Britain, Boxing Day is usually celebrated on the following day after Christmas Day, that is the December 26. Boxing Day is celebrated in Australia, England , New Zealand, and Canada.

Few people that celebrate or participate have idea of what is relay this tradition and what it means. Also must of them doesn't know why the Boxing Day. Traditionally, December 26 was the day to open the Christmas Box to share the contents with the poor.The Christmas box was a wooden or clay container where people placed gifts.Boxing Day is also known as St. Stephen's Day.

Traditionally Boxing Day is a day for fox hunting. Horse riders dressed in red and white riding gear, accompanied by a number of dogs called foxhounds, chase the fox through the countryside in the hope of tiring it out.The Boxing Day is the day when families get together. It is a day of watching sports and playing board games with the family.Many families will go on walks in the countryside together on Boxing day.

During this day some shops have broken from tradition and started opening on Boxing Day to start the New Year sales. Hundreds of people now spend Boxing Day morning in the outside of shops, waiting to be the first to get in the store for the sales. This is more recently that the hunting, the family time and give gift to the poor people.

Boxing Day has been a national holiday in England, Wales, Ireland and Canada since 1871. For years in which the holiday falls on a weekend, the celebration is moved to make sure workers still get a day off (except in Canada, where it remains December 26), but since visits to Grandma and other family obligations are fulfilled on Christmas, there isn’t anything left to do on Boxing Day except eat leftovers, drink and watch TV.

Boxing Day has evolved from a charitable day to an extended Christmas afternoon. It’s a holiday with presents that have already been opened and a dinner that has been eaten. A time with the family. And a good time for shopping. Is so sad that the idea of this day have changed a lot of the original, but that are people that have a very traditional Boxing Day. Also is so estrange that USA doesn't celebrate it.

References

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/xmas/boxingday.html

http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/boxingday.asp

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/26/what-is-boxing-day/

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