但仍有其他人争论说,对无名指的敬意源自基督教早期的一种仪式。在东正教教堂里画十字时,信徒们须将拇指和食指、中指相连。历史学家指出,这三个手指相连代表着父、子和圣灵相连,而无名指象征着俗世的爱,于是便成了已婚者戴结婚戒指的完美位置。
Until the seventeenth century, Orthodox couples normally wore their rings on the right hand (an extremity that’s associated with strength) and most Europeans of all faiths followed suit. But during the Reformation in 1549, an English Bishop and Protestant reformer named Thomas Cranmer used wedding rings as a way to break from tradition. That year, he published The Book of Common Prayer, which instructs couples to ditch a centuries-old practice in favor of slipping their wedding rings over the left fourth finger. Before long, husbands and wives throughout the continent were doing so.
一直到17世纪,东正教夫妇们通常都将戒指戴在右手上(和力量有关的一种极端做法),多数欧洲人(无论是什么信仰)都效仿了这种做法。但是在1549年宗教改革时期,英国主教、新教改革者托马斯•克兰麦利用结婚戒指与传统决裂。那一年,他出版了《公祷书》,书中教导夫妇们抛弃延续数世纪之久的做法,鼓励他们把结婚戒指戴在左手无名指上。没过多久,整个欧洲大陆的夫妇都开始这么做了。
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