Why should the wedding ring be worn on the
fourth finger?

There
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

And
the last (little) finger represents your children

Firstly,
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.

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 yours 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 and wife have
to remain together all their lives through thick and thin!!

Please
try this out……………. Isn’t this a lovely theory?