“A wedding ring is a difficult decoration...” For many, this song is associated with warm memories of a happy wedding day, when the bride in white is the most beautiful in the world, and the groom glows with happiness. A large number of superstitions and folk beliefs are intertwined with modern ideas about how to spend this day. What and how to wear? Where to go and even how to properly cross the threshold? Each people and culture has its own special traditions and rituals, but all have one characteristic. Wedding rings are worn on the ring finger. In most countries, on the right hand, and in some places on the left, but the finger remains the same. So what is the reason? Where does this tradition come from?
What was it like in Ancient Rome and Greece?
One of the most ancient references to wedding rings is the mention by the ancient Greek thinker Plutarch of Apion’s essay “On Egypt,” which justifies wearing this symbol of love on the ring finger as a result of scientific experiments on the human body. Thus, the ancient Egyptians, examining the human body from the inside, discovered a barely noticeable nerve that connects the ring finger directly to the heart, which is not observed in the other fingers. Paying tribute to the importance of the spouses and the involvement of the symbol of love in the heart, it was decided to wear the ring on this finger. Of course, many may be confused by this rationale and methods for discovering this connection. Therefore, it is necessary to mention a beautiful parable that came to us from Ancient China.
Ancient China
Chinese culture is rich in symbols and beautiful rationales for simple things. Thus, the Chinese tradition speaks very simply and beautifully about choosing a finger to wear a ring.
Chinese culture encourages us to consider our hands as symbols of those closest to us. In their opinion, thumbs will represent the father and mother of a person. Index fingers are a symbol of close relatives (brothers, sisters). For the person himself, the symbol will be the middle finger. The ring finger is a partner, and the little fingers are symbols of descendants. If we connect all the fingers together, while removing the middle fingers inside the palm, we will be able to see the real state of things in the world. In this position of the hands, the thumbs, which represent the parents, are very easy to spread in different directions, reflecting the fact that the parents are not always next to the person. With brothers and sisters, the paths of life also diverge, as a result of which the index fingers can be opened. No matter how much we are attached to our children, they will leave the parental hearth and go their own way - the little fingers can be opened. And only the ring fingers, no matter how hard you try, cannot be opened. In such a simple and clear form, Ancient China showed that everything in the world is changing, and the people who are with us can leave our lives, but only our partner will remain close.
Unusual wedding rings on the hands of famous people
Today it is very difficult to surprise someone with the shape, design or material of a ring; the choice of jewelry is fantastically huge. Public figures have only one thing left to do: compete in the cost of wedding rings, the size of the stones, the quality of their cut, and the color of the inserts, which is unusual for wedding jewelry. Kim Kardashian, Beyoncé, Holly Berry, Paris Hilton - they all happily show off rings with diamonds, emeralds of several carats and worth millions of dollars.
The beautiful Anna Kournikova does not lag behind Western celebrities - her ring is incredibly expensive and at the same time not typical for the Hollywood star party: an Australian pink diamond of excellent quality, purity of color, and transparency at one time conquered even the most unscrupulous paparazzi.
As a result, for celebrities, better almost always means more, and the unusualness of wedding or engagement rings most often fades into the background. The same cannot be said about the aristocracy: moderation, high style, classic design are the main priorities when choosing wedding rings for members of royal families in different countries.
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Medical rationale
It is interesting that no matter how many legends and beliefs we know that answer the question of why a wedding ring is worn on the ring finger, few can believe that there is a justification from a medical point of view. Probably, with some inner feeling, our ancestors determined that it was on the ring finger that there were nerve endings that are literally responsible for sexual desire in the human body. They regulate the endocrine system, control the sacrococcygeal area of the spine, and maintain the tone of the vessels of the pelvic organs. So, if you lightly massage the skin on your ring finger, you can activate the production of hormones responsible for sexual desire.
Why do some people wear it on the right and others on the left?
The choice of the hand on which the wedding ring will be worn is directly related to the traditions and faith of a particular territory. Thus, Orthodox believers have the concept that everything connected with the right side of the body is correct, as a result of which the correct concept of marriage is reflected in wearing a wedding ring on the right hand.
Unlike the Orthodox, Catholics and Protestants wear it on the left hand, since it is located closer to the heart.
Did the Slavs wear rings?
In the pagan traditions of Ancient Rus' there was also a place for wedding jewelry. Our ancestors exchanged rings. They were sure to be smooth, without patterns or inserts. It was believed that the ornament could attract negative energy. Interestingly, the man gave his chosen one a gold ring, thereby transferring to her some of his own energy. And the woman presented her husband with silver - sharing with him the lunar feminine energy. The Slavs wore a wedding ring on their index finger. It moved to the nameless one only with the advent of Christianity. Our ancestors believed that it was a good tradition to pass rings on by inheritance. The more ancient rings the young couple exchanged on their wedding day, the stronger their union will be.
Features of wearing wedding rings in different countries
Answering the question of why a wedding ring is put on the ring finger, one can note that this action, while seemingly universal for different countries, may have its own characteristics. They are determined by cultural traditions and the acceptance of the wedding itself as an important event. For example, in Germany and Holland, young people who decide to get married indicate their intentions by putting rings on their left hand. But after the wedding ritual, they put a wedding ring on the ring finger of the right hand. This is how a change in life is celebrated.
An interesting fact when searching for an answer to the question of why a wedding ring is worn on the ring finger was the traditional behavior at a Jewish wedding. By ringing the finger of his right hand as the main one, the groom knows that after the ceremony his wife will independently transfer the ring to her left hand.
In most countries, it is customary for spouses to wear rings on one side. But in Sri Lanka things are different. There it is customary to wear the symbol of marriage on different sides. The groom puts the symbol of fidelity on his right hand, and his bride on her left.
In Muslim countries it is rare to see the ritual of exchanging rings, but they can be seen in everyday life. Which hand the ring will be on depends only on the person wearing it.
Thus, we can conclude that to the question of why a wedding ring is worn on the ring finger and why the choice of hand is different for different countries, the answer for each individual region has its own justification. It lies in the historical past, religion and culture of a certain people.
Interesting Facts
Despite the fact that all Catholics and Protestants wear rings on their left hands, a different approach is typical for Austria, where representatives of these branches of Christianity live mainly. Rings are worn primarily on the right hand.
One of the justifications for wearing a symbol of marriage among Orthodox Christians is that it is with the right hand that a person does most things.
In the Orthodox tradition, in the event of the death of a spouse, in order to testify to one's fidelity, the symbol of love is transferred from the right hand to the left. Therefore, if a visiting person puts a ring on his left hand, he may be mistaken for a widower or widower.
It is interesting that the tradition of wearing wedding rings initially concerned only women. Men began to constantly wear a symbol of fidelity only during the Second World War, when they took rings with them to remember that they were waiting for them at home. In order to say why a wedding ring is worn on the ring finger in your region, you need to look at history and understand why your ancestors accepted one of the versions or they had their own.
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