英语词汇lifting monday的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Lifting Monday; Lifting Tuesday. Easter Monday was called Lifting Monday, or Heaving Day, in the English counties of Shropshire, Cheshire, and Lancashire because of an ancient custom that allowed men to lift up and kiss any woman met in the street that day. On Lifting Tuesday women could do the same to men. “Lifting or heaving differs a little in different places,” one writer explained. “In some parts the person is laid horizontally, in others placed in a sitting position on the bear- ers’ hands. Usually, when the lifting or heaving is within doors, a chair is produced.” According to another observer, “the wom- an’s heaving-day was the most amusing,” with the women try- ing to lift and heave the men, but the custom, recorded as late as the 1870s, caused too many disturbances and was aban- doned before the end of the 19th century.

词汇	lifting monday
词源	Lifting Monday; Lifting Tuesday. Easter Monday was called Lifting Monday, or Heaving Day, in the English counties of Shropshire, Cheshire, and Lancashire because of an ancient custom that allowed men to lift up and kiss any woman met in the street that day. On Lifting Tuesday women could do the same to men. “Lifting or heaving differs a little in different places,” one writer explained. “In some parts the person is laid horizontally, in others placed in a sitting position on the bear- ers’ hands. Usually, when the lifting or heaving is within doors, a chair is produced.” According to another observer, “the wom- an’s heaving-day was the most amusing,” with the women try- ing to lift and heave the men, but the custom, recorded as late as the 1870s, caused too many disturbances and was aban- doned before the end of the 19th century.
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