Boxing Day, what's it all about?

We enjoy Christmas Day and then refer to where we will be on Boxing Day - but where does the term Boxing Day originate? One for our Paul maybe? Lol

i wont spoil it for you ron.

Yeah, c'mon do your worst tell me, spoil it.

When all the people who enjoyed glasses of good cheer on Christmas Day put on their boxing gloves and have an even better time!!!??? LOL

It's a genuine question, if you know the answer please do tell us.

Going back into the dim & distant past the villagers/estate workers/etc., were given a Christmas box by the "Lord of the manor" or similar personages (I think it often contained coinage) on the day after Christmas - hence Boxing Day!  Am I close James????

it is an old tradition to place gifts in a box or case and share them with the poor on the 26th hence the saying "boxing day"

Didn't know that, thanks CathyML and Bright Eye's

I've always found there's 2 answers as to the origins of Boxing Day, and Cathy and James have given them both.