What Does It Mean to Wear Rings on sure Fingers

You wear a ring on a definite finger depending on the kind of ring and the country or culture in which you live. In most countries in the West it is general to wear a wedding or engagement ring on the ring finger of the left hand. This tradition arose because legend had it that this finger contained a vein - the vena amoris - that led directly to the heart. No such vein of procedure exists, except possibly metaphorically. There is also a medieval tradition that each finger represents a different relationship; the thumbs your parents, the index finger your siblings, the middle finger yourself, the fourth finger your spouse and your puny finger your children. One ageless story for why you wear your wedding ring describes as follows:

What Does It Mean to Wear Rings on sure Fingers

What Does It Mean to Wear Rings on sure Fingers

---

What Does It Mean to Wear Rings on sure Fingers

What Does It Mean to Wear Rings on sure Fingers

Open the palm of your hands face-to-face. Bend your middle fingers and hold them together back-to-back. Hold the remaining fingers tip-to-tip and try to separate your thumbs. They will open wide because your parents will not live with you for the rest of your life. Then try separating your puny fingers. They will open apart because your children will grow up and leave you. Try animated your index fingers and they will move apart too just as your brothers and sisters will eventually live their own lives and you will see less of them. Now try animated your fourth fingers - your ring fingers - apart, and you will find they are impossible to separate just as husband and wife are bound together for eternity.

In a tradition beginning with the Romans, and possibly before, we ordinarily wear an engagement ring on the same finger as the wedding ring for the exact same reason. Often the wedding ring is a plain band, which expresses a holy union, whereas the engagement ring is more ordinarily decorated with precious stones as made supreme with the engagement of Princess Katherine. Diamonds are a symbol of eternal love which arises because of their enduring capability not the advertising slogan which came later.

In some Scandinavian countries - Norway, Sweden and Denmark - as well as the Greek Orthodox Church, the wedding ring finger of the right hand bears the ring. Many Swedish women wear a third ring on their ring finger, in this case on their right hand, as a symbol of motherhood and fertility. In some Jewish traditions the wedding ring transfers from the index finger while the ceremony and onto the ring finger after; in Greece the left hand while the service and then later slipped to the right.

Chinese people tend not to wear wedding rings though when they do it is on their middle fingers. The presuppose is that according to the principles of yin-yang the middle finger represents the heart.

Following a tradition begun by Queen Victoria in the nineteenth century a gold snake ring may be worn on the ring finger opposite the wedding ring as a symbol of good luck and fertility.

The capability and extravagant price of the stones is part of the tradition that marriage is economic rather than about romance and love. The bride receives cost of goods while the marriage ceremony. The German wedding vows once stated "'I give you this ring as a sign of the marriage which has been promised between the two of us, on condition your father gives with your marriage 1,000 Deutschmarks." This mercenary clause in the holy vows is no longer used. Today we wear rings for their symbolic significance and on which finger we wear them is part of this age-long tradition.

What Does It Mean to Wear Rings on sure Fingers

Recommend : Weber GasGrill Outdoor Electric Scooter and Electric Razor Potassium iodide tablets Year old baby girls in diapers