Why the ring finger?

I found this article at weird ramblings.com and thought it was too awesome not to post in it’s entirety!

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):

Finger Ring Mystery

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!!

Neat, eh?

∗ Posted by bluepaintred on 03.31.2008
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Comments: 10 »

  1. :???: Mine came apart (not a lot, but they did, I swear)……prolly not a good sign, right?

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    Comment by Lexi - March 31, 2008 9:36 pm

  2. Mine too Lexi!! :shock:
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    Comment by Sheila - March 31, 2008 9:41 pm

  3. um yeah, mine came apart too. Which really didn’t shock me, lol, I tell him all the time his days are numbered. Now I can tell him my fingers said so. :lol:
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    Comment by maria - April 1, 2008 4:13 am

  4. Awwww…that’s cute.

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    Comment by Robin - April 1, 2008 6:28 am

  5. It’s too early for this mind-bending shit! I’m so freaked out, I’m going back to bed!

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    Comment by Metalmom - April 1, 2008 6:56 am

  6. I knew that trick with one hand on a table (you can’t lift your ring finger off the table). But it’s way cooler with both hands and the awesome explanation!

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    Comment by Blogarita - April 1, 2008 7:55 am

  7. I have no children. What does that mean?

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    Comment by Absurdist - April 1, 2008 8:32 am

  8. Very cool! I had not heard that before.

    Comment by Peggy - April 1, 2008 9:40 am

  9. mine came apart too, but with a little struggle. I find this unsurprising since my husband has been married twice before (twice that he talks about; I have since found out out there are 2 or 3 OTHERS he’s never mentioned).

    Comment by phinz - April 1, 2008 10:53 am

  10. Mine didn’t come apart, & yet I’ve been divorced for 100 years… things that make you go hmmmmmmmm.

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    Comment by Tug - April 1, 2008 1:52 pm

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