If you are a cricket buff, Boxing day test is something you often take note of. But why there is a boxing in Boxing Day?
The name comes from a time when the rich used to box up gifts to give to the poor. We may be living in different times. But the day still brings back memories of history.

Boxing Day was traditionally a day off for servants, and the day when they received a special Christmas box from their masters. That was because the servants had to work extra hard and extra long to keep their masters' Christmas parties interesting.
The servants would also go home on Boxing Day to give Christmas boxes to their families.
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The day also has religious connections and is celebrated as Saint Stephen's Day in Ireland and the Catalonia region of Spain.
In some European countries - such as Hungary, Germany, Poland, and the Netherlands - Boxing Day is celebrated as a second Christmas Day. That is not everything. Even Churches played a part in the creation of Boxing Day. Through the year they would take money from churchgoers in the form of a collection and hand it out at Christmas. The box thus became donation box.
Many of them stored the collection money in a box, which they opened on Christmas Day. The money was then handed out to the poor the next day - on Boxing Day.
Today, those boxes aren't as popular. However some people leave out extra money for people like paper boys and girls in the weeks before Christmas, and call it a Christmas box.