A ring is an ornament worn on the finger, and anyone can wear it. The custom of wearing a ring has a long history, and different places have different representative meanings for different ways of wearing it. The material can be metal, gem, plastic, wood or bone.
In China, rings have been used for at least two thousand years.
Rings were often called "rings" in ancient times, and the appearance of the name "rings" was a matter of the Yuan Dynasty.
When the ring is spread to the people, its function is not just a simple ornament. As evidence, men and women love each other, give gifts to each other, and swear by each other. It originated from practicality, and then gradually turned to the unity of aesthetics and wealth, and was gradually endowed with different cultural meanings.
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Ring refers to the standard of circle size, called hand inch, calculated by numbers. Hand-inch is divided into Hong Kong style and American style, and China mostly adopts Hong Kong style. Most people's hands are between 4 and 26. The safest way to measure them is to ask the clerk in the jewelry store to measure them for you two, or you can measure them yourself and publish them online:
Find a string or a piece of paper, wrap it around the finger where you want to wear the ring, mark the overlapping part of the string or paper with a pen, then measure its length with a ruler and compare it with the hand-inch comparison table.
Generally speaking, rings should not be worn casually. According to custom, they have different meanings on each finger. This is a silent language, but also a signal and sign. So think carefully when you wear it, so as not to make a joke.
Generally don't wear a ring on your thumb; Wearing it on the index finger means wanting to get married, which means unmarried; Wearing it on the middle finger indicates that someone is in love; Wear it on the ring finger to indicate engagement or marriage; Wearing it on the little finger indicates celibacy or divorce. Some people use simpler "chasing, begging, ordering, marrying and leaving" to explain the meaning and implication of wearing a ring on five fingers respectively.
There have been several versions of the meaning of wearing a ring, among which one is more common: wearing it on the thumb means pursuing each other, wearing it on the index finger means longing for love, wearing it on the middle finger means engagement, wearing it on the ring finger means marriage, and wearing it on the little finger means being single or divorced.
According to legend, the ring was invented by a grumpy monarch. A long time ago, there was an emperor who lost his temper, regardless of details. He was a little dissatisfied and hit the table and the bench to lose his temper. His ministers were very unhappy, and the emperor often regretted it afterwards.
He realized that it was very bad to lose his temper, so he thought of a way: he cast a small copper ring on his finger. When he loses his temper, he slaps the table, and the copper ring hurts his hand.
After a long time, the painful finger lesson reminded the grumpy emperor and finally helped him quit the bad habit of striking the table. From then on, this method spread, ministers first, people followed suit, put on copper rings to avoid bad temper, and later simply named it "ring."
The ancient Egyptians developed the custom of wearing rings into a custom, that is, the groom should wear expensive gold, silver or diamond rings for the bride when getting married. This reason is also very interesting. The ancient Egyptians believed that the blood vessels of fingers were directly connected with the heart, which coincides with China's view that "ten fingers are connected to one heart".
They believe that putting a priceless ring on the bride's finger can tie her heart! A wife will always follow her husband and love him for a hundred years, and the couple will grow old together. The meaning of wearing a ring in China follows the international way of wearing, and the distance between different fingers and the heart determines the different meanings of wearing a ring.
Wearing a ring on both hands is the difference between domestic and international. For example, the ring finger and the heart of the left hand represent "newly married", while the ring finger and the heart of the right hand meet farthest to represent "single", which forms a unique way of wearing the left hand to represent "marriage" and the right hand to represent "love".
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