Despite the identify, Boxing Day is not associated to the game of boxing or returning Christmas presents.
WASHINGTON — As Christmas Day will get underway, the United Kingdom and British Commonwealth international locations are looking forward to Boxing Day on Thursday.
Boxing Day is widely known within the U.Ok. on Dec. 26, the day after Christmas. Despite the identify, the vacation has nothing to do with the game of boxing or returning packing containers or presents.
History.com explains that one concept of the vacation’s origin is that the day after Christmas was when packing containers crammed with small items and cash can be given to family servants and workers who needed to work on Dec. 25. The items had been meant as a thanks for his or her service all year long.
Despite the vacation’s origin being unclear, Dictionary.com claims it has existed because the 1700s.
As the vacation advanced over time, it has grow to be an extension of the Christmas season with household and buddies gathering to have fun collectively. In the U.Ok. and different British Commonwealth international locations, Boxing Day can be some of the standard purchasing days of the yr, rivaling Black Friday within the United States.
It ought to be famous, nevertheless, that Boxing Day has nothing to do with boxing or returning Christmas items in packing containers. People within the U.Ok., nevertheless, have come to affiliate the vacation with soccer (soccer).
There are eight Premier League matches scheduled for Boxing Day this yr.
Former soccer participant and present TV analyst Robbie Earle described in a 2019 video that when he thinks of Boxing Day, he thinks of “the largest recreation of the Premier League season.”
