| | 留言人: Gary Lueng '70
主題: re:Boxing day
留言日期: 1/4/2007 11:52:00 PM
Ng wai chung吳偉聰, Russian, WiKipedia
Happy New Year!
Thank you for your inputs and I had learned something new to-day.
As the matter of fact, I have lived in The US for a quarter of a century and Boxing-Day seems an alien to me. Probably we do not have a Canadian calendar in our office. As the same token, if I do not have a Chinese calendar I would not be able to know the date of this Chinese New Year.
By the way, how does the New Year treat you? What did Santa Claus
bring you?
Gary Leung '70
Sacramento, Ca
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留言人: Ng wai chung吳偉聰
主題: re:Boxing day
留言日期: 12/27/2006 4:38:00 PM
大概没几个人不知道12月25日是圣诞节，可你知道圣诞节之后的第一天是什么日子吗？原来西方人把12月26日叫做Boxing Day（节礼日），意为圣诞节后的第一个工作日。
其实在美国，Boxing Day也渐渐变成了一个新兴的“传统假日”，这一天人们可以在头天的狂欢后好好休息一下，也可以冲进疯狂打折促销的商场里再尽余兴。
下面谈谈Boxing Day这种说法的起源吧，这里的box指的是一个小方盒子，多为陶瓷或陶土质地，上方开着一个可以塞进硬币的小口。哈哈，这不就是储蓄罐吗？西方人叫它Christmas box。
从17世纪早期起，西方的学徒和送货员们就会在圣诞节带上这么一个盒子去见他们的师傅或老顾客，希望他们在盒子里放一些小费当作圣诞礼物。当他们“募捐”到足够多的“圣诞礼物”后，就会把盒子砸开，然后和其他的学徒或送货员共同分享这些钱。后来，因为圣诞节当天家家户户都很忙碌，所以这一传统的收礼仪式就推后到次日，也就是Boxing Day了。
18世纪时，这种用来装钱的小小的陶瓷盒子慢慢销声匿迹了，而圣诞节送小费这一传统却仍旧保留下来，而这种小费本身就叫做Christmas box。
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留言人: Russian
主題: re:Boxing day
留言日期: 12/27/2006 3:58:00 PM
Gary Leung '70
Are you for real or are you trying to make fun of the Canadians; you seriously do not know what Boxing day is? This is new to me.
If you are from Mongolia; I can possibly believe your ignorance but since you are from the US; I can not believe you do not know what Boxing day is. Come on.
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留言人: Edward Li
主題: re:Boxing day
留言日期: 12/27/2006 8:53:00 AM
It is a not a public holiday in B.C., Canada. I had worked in the past 7 years in Boxing day(private and
public company-sales & service on office equipments).
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留言人: WiKipedia
主題: re:Boxing day
留言日期: 12/27/2006 7:23:00 AM
In Canada, Boxing Day is observed as a holiday, except (in some cases) for those in the retail business. Boxing Day and the days immediately following are when many retail stores sell their Christmas and retired model products by holding clearance sales. Some shoppers will line up for hours at night (sometimes before midnight and after midnight on December 26) for retailers
to open their doors. Retailers often open their stores earlier than usual, such as 6 or 7 am. Some retail companies internally refer to the sales week
after Christmas as the "thirteenth month." (See Boxing Week.) It is similar to Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) in the United States. Boxing
Day 2005 was the single largest economic transaction day ever in the history of Canadian commerce (according to Visa). Individual big box stores can even gross over $1,000,000(CAN) on one single boxing day.
However, in some cities, retail stores are not permitted to open on Boxing Day because of municipal regulations; in those cities, Boxing Day sales begin on December 27.In addition to the retail aspect of the holiday, Boxing Day also serves as a second day for families to gather for dinner and to exchange gifts. Boxing Day Dinner is, in many ways, just as much a part of many families traditions as Christmas Dinner itself.
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留言人: Gary Leung '70
主題: Boxing day
留言日期: 12/27/2006 7:08:00 AM
Hey Canadians,
What is Boxing Day? It is new to me.
Gary Leung '70
Sacramento, Ca
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