Boxing Day?

[Elaina]

Buenos Dias David y todos los que estan leyendo.....

Que es Boxing Day? Está all final de la hoja de "Forums" y cuando traté de abrirla, el mensaje era "Calendar is disabled".

¿Que es eso? Soy, como se dice, "nosy"!!

Elaina

[Tomisimo]

Si, dehabilité el calendario hace mucho tiempo porque pensaba que no me servía, pero hace unos días, empecé a ingresar días festivos al calendario. Ahora tengo que habilitarlo.

Boxing Day es algo que se celebra en Canadá, Inglaterra, Australia, y no sé si en otras partes. Es el día 26 de diciembre, y es un día donde toda la familia se reúne para comer lo que sobró de la comida del 25. Algo así.

[Elaina]

Que interesante!

Pero quedo perpleja aún. ¿Porqué le nombrarían Boxing Day?

HHHMMMM

Elaina

[Elaina]

Ah .... ahora entiendo. Hice un poco de "research" y ahora entiendo lo que es. No sé porque tenía en mente la palabra para <boxing = boxeo>

Gracias por algo nuevo que aprendí hoy!

Elaina

[poli]

En inglaterra es un día de descanso para los sirvientes. Tambien es un día
en que dinero and regalos está dado a los pobres.

[Miss Profe]

Aquí es un enlace de Wikipedia que pertence a Boxing Day:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Day

[sosia]

I didn't know it. Perhaps it was the day when the English people saw boxing on TV!!

I searched (thanks Elaina) in wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Day

Christmas box

A Christmas box is, in English tradition, a clay box used in artisan shops. Apprentices, masters, visitors, customers, and others would put donations of money into the box, like a piggy bank, and then, after Christmas, the box would be shattered and all the contents shared among the workers of the shop. Thus, masters and customers could donate bonuses to the workers without anything direct, and the employees could average their wages. The habit of breaking the Christmas box lent its name to Boxing Day. The term "Christmas box" now refers generally to a gift or pay bonus given to workers.[4]

The Oxford English Dictionary attributes it to the Christmas box; the verb box meaning: "To give a Christmas-box (colloq.); hence the term boxing-day." Outside the Commonwealth, the holiday is sometimes called "St. Stephen's Day".

* It was the day when people would give a present or Christmas box to those who had worked for them throughout the year.
* In England many years ago, it was common practice for the servants to carry boxes to their employers when they arrived for their day's work on the day after Christmas. Their employers would then put coins in the boxes as special end-of-year gifts. This can be compared with the modern day concept of Christmas bonuses. The servants carried boxes for the coins, hence the name Boxing Day.