What's the difference between modern and ancient ways of wearing rings?

Ring is a kind of jewelry with a long history, and it is also very exquisite to wear. If you accidentally wear it wrong, you will make a joke.

In ancient times, in the folk, rings were worn on different fingers, representing a person's different marital status. Matchmakers can use these to judge who they match.

In the palace, wearing a ring has another meaning, including wearing rings on different fingers and rings of different materials, which all represent different meanings.

Although everyone wears a ring now, they pay more attention to its price to identify each other's value, and the meaning it represents is often ignored.

People pay attention to wearing rings;

If a ring is worn on a woman's left hand, it is customary to wear it on the little finger to indicate celibacy, on the ring finger to indicate marriage, on the middle finger to indicate love, and on the index finger to indicate longing for marriage. Women rarely wear rings on their thumbs, which is the most recognized statement at present. Ordinary families are unisex. The more expensive a ring is, the more you love it, especially if you want to wear diamonds. There is a saying that "a diamond lasts forever, and a diamond lasts forever".

The significance of the ring in the past palaces;

There are so many concubines of the emperor that these people were unmarked at first. If the emperor takes a fancy to one, he will leave a silver ring to wear on his right hand as a souvenir. If a concubine is pregnant, she will give her a gold ring to wear on her left hand. According to China's custom, "upward flow means downward flow". Now you can get married with a gold ring and wear it on your left hand. In fact, you are looking forward to carrying on the family line.

A man wearing a ring is a symbol of power and status;

In ancient times, men seldom wore rings. Generally speaking, powerful people wear jade fingers on their thumbs, which is a symbol of power and status. Friends who have seen the movie drunken master 3 know that Yuan Shikai wore a jade banzhi. At first glance, he just can't take part in labor, and he definitely needs social status to make a living.

The 13th Master in The Official History of Li Jue also gave Li Jue a jade banzhi, which can be paired with the one of Prince Guo to mobilize the local Eight Banners. This is a symbol of power.

In ancient times, whether a woman got married or not was not entirely determined by the ring;

In ancient times, in addition to wearing a ring to judge a woman's marital status, it can also be identified by the following methods, highlighting the introversion of China people, and people with discerning eyes can see it without asking:

1. Open a face: The day before a woman gets married, she should open a face. The so-called face-opening is actually wringing out all the fluff on her face, just like the "hair removal" treatment for women now, but it is very painful to look at it by mechanical means. Women who used to get married were naked and could not see the fluff. The picky matchmaker knew at a glance that she wouldn't give it to her again.

2, head type: after the ancient women got married, they all had to set their heads, and they could no longer leave pigtails like girls. One reason is to appear mature and dignified, and the other reason is to tell the matchmaker that this is a married woman.

Today's ring has no traditional significance.

Although young men and women now exchange rings as tokens of love when they get married, the real meaning is far from tradition. For women, it's more about keeping up with its price. Few trendy boys will give up their pursuit because the other party wears a wedding ring, and they lack respect for the meaning of wearing a ring.

For men, the role of the ring is like a watch, which reflects more personal identity. We often joke that "we pat our thighs with watches and love to open our mouths with gold teeth", and so does the social situation. Some people wear gold watches and big diamond rings to mix well in society, pretending to be successful people, and let many young people follow suit.

The ring is the object, but the subject;

When Rodin made a sculpture for Balzac, because a hand was really lifelike, it attracted everyone's attention and admired its exquisiteness. Rodin cut off the hand of the statue with an axe on the grounds that the hand, as the object of sculpture, could not be more attractive than its main body, that is, a complete sculpture.

Actually, so is the ring. It's just an ornament. If a person lifts himself up by ornaments, his value is limited, but many people just don't understand this truth.

Nowadays people wear rings, and its meaning is obviously different from that of the ancients.