Why should the wedding ring be worn on the fourth finger? This is a beautiful and convincing explanation given by the Chinese.
- Thumb represents your Parents
- Second (Index) finger represents your Siblings
- Middle finger represents your-Self
- Fourth (Ring) finger represents your Life Partner
- & the Last (Little) finger represents your children
First, open your palms (face to face), bend the middle fingers and hold them together - back to back. Secondly, open and hold the remaining three fingers and the thumb - tip to tip (As shown in the figure below):
Now, try to separate your thumbs (representing the parents), they will open, because your parents are not destined to live with you lifelong, and have to leave you sooner or later.
Go ahead, join your thumbs as before and separate your Index fingers (representing siblings), they will also open, because your brothers and sisters will have their own families and will have to lead their own separate lives.
Now join the Index fingers and separate your Little fingers (representing your children), they will open too, because the children also will get married and settle down on their own some day.
Finally, join your Little fingers, and try to separate your Ring finger (representing your spouse)
You will be surprised to see that you just CANNOT, because Husband & Wife have to remain together all their lives - through thick and thin!!
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interesting idea! and funny that I read it today…it’s the birthday of my sister AND her husband!
i enjoyed that
Actually I can do that =p
Cool though.
You CAN separate your ring fingers, but it hurts a bit, and they want to come back together anyways. Cool, though people don’t understand the sanctity anyways…
The reason why you cannot seperate them is because the ring and middle fingers share a ligament in the hand as well as a muscle group. The arrangement of the ligature prevents them from seperating when the inward turn of the middle finger tightens the ligament thus preventing the ring finger from pulling away from its partner.
very interesting!Must ask my divorced friends if they can separate their fourth fingers?
I hadn’t thought much about that.
Nice concept
Not good to read when my husband has just walked out on me maybe I should show the idiot!! Could be an interesting reaction lol
:[ My ring fingers separate just fine.
Of course, all my fingers have been broken and are now crooked. I guess that makes me destined for divorce! XD
I can pull them apart without it hurting.
I wonder if the number of people that can do it matches the divorce rate
Awww, very cute!
you may not be able to pull away your ring fingers from each other BUT they can pass each other and go their separate ways.
very cool…and good “explanation”
Very cool - my sister is getting married tomorrow. I will have to tell her this before the wedding.
How is that remotely convincing? If you bend your index fingers together, you can’t separate your middle fingers.
OMG MAGIC
My explanation is that the 4th phalange is the least functional finger. The article was crap.
Anything against our belief always is crap. Learn to appreciate opinions and thoughts.
Opinions and thoughts …. My understanding is that the ‘ring finger’ is closest artery wise to the heart. This is why the ring finger is what it is.
if you can pull apart your ring fingers you’re doing it wrong. make sure your knuckles on your middle fingers are touching. you can create the same effect by folding back your middle finger and placing your hand on a table with the tips of all of your other fingers touching the tabletop. you won’t be able to lift your ring finger.
“Opinions and thoughts …. My understanding is that the ‘ring finger’ is closest artery wise to the heart. This is why the ring finger is what it is.”
I’m fairly sure people wore rings on their ring finger before surgery was advanced enough to determine which finger is closest to the heart artery wise…
I can separate them with ease actually (have not had any finger breaks, or injuries) - does not hurt at all - Does this have a meaning
I’m going to give myself 3 minutes to make up something equally as ridiculous:
People often ask why a Western bride wears white. This beautiful tradition stands for more than just the purity of the soon-to-be wife.
In the west, green stands for jealousy, red for anger, yellow for cowardice, and blue for sadness. Because white is the reflection of all the colors, the white dress represents the bride rejecting those characteristics to represent the perfect love, according to 1 Corinthians 13:4-7:
Love is patient and kind;
Love is not jealous or boastful;it is not arrogant or rude.
Love does not insist on its own way;
it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.
Love bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.
Therefore, the bride wears white to express her perfect love.
(Sorry, I think marriage is a sham, just like this article)
This is retarded. I can move my fingers apart, easily.
…I mean honestly! I’m pretty sure it’s just a traditional belief that they hold onto because the meaning is beautiful. It’s interesting to know and that’s why it was made an article.
I think the comments about the article being “retarded”, or “a sham” say more about their own writers than about the article. Like all myths, it’s just a story, meant to reflect a truth about life or convey a piece a knowledge. In this example, it’s probably saying that a successful marriage entails the joining of two people until death.
Don’t worry about broken fingers or being able to prove it wrong, the story only has as much power as you give it, just like marriage.
What this shows is that when you limited yourself (Closing your middle fingers together) you are bond intricately to one path in life, reproductive slavery.
When you open yourself, you are free, and you can accomplish anything.
‘Anything against our belief always is crap. Learn to appreciate opinions and thoughts.’
I find this hilarious, as you are failing to appreciate his opinions and thoughts to an equal extent.
Ok, so that is hilarious. Nice.
I thought this was so neat that I copied it entirely on my blog. I gave full credit to this post, however!
a simple google query yeilds:
Why do we use the third finger of the left hand?
But even in these days of cardiothoracic science, it’s not easy to put a ring around the heart. So in the old days they had a simple answer: they put the ring on the third finger which they believed had a vein, artery or nerve (a sort of a USB cable) running directly to the heart. And as the left hand is a bit closer to the heart than the right, they placed engagement and wedding rings on the third finger of the left hand. (In some cultures the ring is worn on the right hand, since the right hand is considered more righteous.)
In chiromancy (a combination of astrology and palmistry) the third (Apollo) finger relates to the heart. Wearing a ring on that finger would not only protect the heart from evil spirits, but also enhance the life of the wearer by transmitting energy to the heart.
Patient: “It hurts when I press here, here, and here.”
Doctor: “You’ve broken your finger”
Following this line of quacky reasoning, it was the custom for physicians, herbalists and other healers, to use their third finger when applying medicinal ointment or powder to their patients, Using this finger strengthened the effectiveness of the cure.
Japanese call the ring-finger kusuri-yubi, in German Arzt-Finger, in Latin digitus medicinalis and in Old Anglo-Saxon it was called lech-man, all meaning medical finger, because:
1.
Long ago doctors applied medical ointment with this finger. Sure, any finger could have been used but this finger seems ‘natural’ because the hand can be steadied by the middle finger and the little finger whilst applying the medicine. Being closer to the thumb, the first and second fingers are generally used more for other things (such as fingers crossed that the marriage is a happy one!), so the third finger is slightly more sensitive to touch, making it more suitable for delicate tasks like applying ointment.
or…
2.
Long ago people believed that a nerve or vein ran directly from this finger to the heart. Roman doctors*** called this vena amoris - the vein of love. If medicine was applied by this finger, then the medicine would be enhanced by the mystical energy of the physician’s heart. Medicine has its roots in magic (medico - to heal by magic) and the German Arzt (physician) originally meant magician.
***(Did Roman paramedics refer to IV’s as 4’s?)
or…
3.
If medicine is applied to this finger, then the medicine would shoot directly to the heart. Nice idea.
or…
4.
…something else.
Whatever the reason, this finger became rather special and the natural choice to bear a wedding ring.
Some cultures have different traditions. The Irish, for example, have an interesting ‘code’, where the position of a ring can send a subtle message to prospective suitors. (See Claddagh Ring.)
As most people are right-handed, the right hand is used more frequently for work, so not as touch sensitive as the left. And because the right hand does more work, it poses a greater risk of damage to any jewelry. Watchmakers put the winder on the right hand side of the watch face, because most people wear their watches on the ’safer’ left wrist. A groom stands to the right of his bride so his stronger right arm is free to ward off potential kidnappers. (Jewish weddings see the groom standing to the left, based on Psalm 45:9)
anyone interested in this can type “wedding ring customs” and get the same results.
I love it,very interesting.
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