Why should the wedding ring be worn on the fourth finger?
By bluishrose
@bluishrose (2289)
Philippines
July 25, 2007 4:00am CST
There is a beautiful and convincing explanation given by the Chinese Legend...
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
Second, open and hold the remaining three fingers and the thumb - tip to tip
(As shown in the figure):
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.
Please 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 fingers (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!!
Please try this out...
ISN'T THIS A LOVELY THEORY?
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15 responses
@pam_d_gr8 (50)
• India
25 Jul 07
well tel u wat bluish rose...i just separated the ring finger from the position u said...as per u may be i wont be living wid my husband..donno abt it..its total future prediction....
well now tell u something..i have read it in a book...dat a vein from the fourth finger goes directly to ur heart and dats y the fourth finger is made the ring finger...so dat the token of ur true and endless love gets direct connection to ur heart..donno how much its true..but this is wat i know...tk cr..tata
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@AnoChaudhary (1719)
• India
25 Jul 07
Hi Bluishrose that was really wonderful and thank you for sharing it with us :) i agree its a lovely theory and nice way of knowing we have our loved ones at the tip of our finger LOL and by the way there is another theory down in India where its believed each of our fingers a point that reperesents an internal organ and the ring finger represents the heart so you wear the ring of your loved one on the ring finger :) ...hey accupuncture you should be fimiliar with it.....:)
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@bluishrose (2289)
• Philippines
26 Jul 07
Yup each of our fingers represent an internal organ, my taught me about it she learned acupuncture. Thanks for your response!
@maryannemax (12156)
• Sweden
25 Jul 07
that's a clever explanation there! i tried did what was told in your discussion. and you're right. i just can't separate my fourth fingers! that's so difficult to do and even impossible.
i also heard that only the fourth finger has a vein which is directly connected to our hearts. that's why the engagement and wedding rings are worn on our fourth finger.
anne
@roniroxas (10560)
• Philippines
26 Jul 07
ummmm sorry but i didnt work for me.... i tried it on my hands and it is not working. i can separate them. and if you are going to ask my life well im separated for 7 years already the marriage didnt work out.
but i believe that we wear our wedding ring on the fourth finger because that finger is connected to our heart
@joyce959 (1559)
• Philippines
25 Jul 07
That's a nice theory about fingers' role. However, I tried what you had told but I had separated both of my 4th finger or ring finger although not as widely open as the other fingers.
What I know is that the fourth finger has the veins connected to our heart, and it is the heart which is involve in our love relationships, that is why the wedding ring or engagement ring is worn on the 4th finger.
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@rogue13xmen13 (14403)
• United States
26 Jul 07
It all has to do with symbolism. Four is the heaven number, thus the forth finger.
@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
26 Jul 07
That is beautiful. Thank you for your post.
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@laydee (12798)
• Philippines
26 Jul 07
That was cute.
Hehehe..
I was just a little shocked when you said you wear your wedding ring on your pinky finger. I didn't know that, because I wear my ring (not wedding ring) in my pinky finger for style.
=)
Whew.
Anyways, thanks for the thought.
=)
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@viollet_ry (968)
• Indonesia
26 Jul 07
I didnt quite understand at first. Maybe I read too quick. But now I do and its true. I cant seperate the ring finger myself. That is a nice theory of Chinese. I am Chinese myself but I guess I never read about this one, but I will keep it as an input.
But one thing I wonder, if husband and wife have to remain together all their lifes but I can see they live separately or divorced.... Is that mean that they dont belong to each other?
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@carol_m (709)
• Philippines
26 Jul 07
Such a lovely representation.. well, I tried it and I was able to separate my ring fingers a little (note: with a little force applied on the thumb). Does this mean that my parents would press me to be separated with my husband or would I press my parents to let me be separated with my husband? LOL!
Now, about the ring finger, everybody had been saying there's a vein on the left ring finger that connects directly to the heart..don't know if its true.
Does it really matter in which finger the wedding ring should be?
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@bluishrose (2289)
• Philippines
26 Jul 07
Maybe for some people it doesnt matter where the wedding ring is put on but for me it matters i want it place on the wedding finger to show to people that im married. Because if its placeon the others the meaning would be different right?!
@1_Charmed (14)
• United States
26 Jul 07
The reason, so I have heard, why the wedding ring is worn on the left index finger, I believe it's called, is because that finger has the vein that leads directly to the heart.
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@shuangshuang (28)
• China
26 Jul 07
I knew it. Some days ago, my friend told me, only the forth finger couldn't separate! It means two hearts never to separated!
@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
26 Jul 07
I think thee was an old legend that the left hand ring finger held a nerve that ran from the finger to the heart, hense the tradition of putting rings on the fourth finger of the left hand. Even after it was proven not to be true, the tradition of the ring finger stuck.
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