Boxing day history meaning of Boxing day
Saturday, December 26, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Boxing day history meaning of Boxing day updates :- 26th is Boxing Day. Boxing Day history tells us that it started during the Middle Ages in England. There are a few historians who believe it was to relieve the servants who had to work on Christmas Day.
The day-after-Christmas holiday is celebrated by most countries in the British Commonwealth, but in a “what-were-we-doing-again?” bout of amnesia, none of them are really sure what they’re celebrating, when it started, or why.
The best clue to Boxing Day’s origins can be found in the song, “Good King Wenceslas.” According to the Christmas carol, Wenceslas, who was Duke of Bohemia in the early 10th century, was surveying his land on St. Stephen’s Day — Dec. 26 — when he saw a poor man gathering wood in the middle of a snow storm. Moved, the king gathered up surplus food and wine and carried them through the blizzard to the peasant’s door. The alms-giving tradition has always been closely associated with the Christmas season — hence the canned food drives and Salvation Army Santas that pepper our neighborhoods during the winter — but King Wenceslas’s good deed came the day after Christmas, when the English poor received most of their charity.
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