Why should the wedding ring be worn on the fourth finger?
There is a beautiful and convincing explanation given by the Chinese.
Your thumb represents your Parents
Your index finger represents your Siblings
Your middle finger represents yourself
Your ring finger represents your Life Partner
Your last (pinkie) finger represents your Children
Firstly, open your palms (face to face), bend the middle fingers and hold them together -- back to back. Then open and hold the remaining three fingers and the thumb tip to tip. As shown in the above picture:
Now, try to separate your thumbs (representing your 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 your 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 someday.
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 and wife have to remain together all their lives -- through thick and thin!
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