德国人的结婚戒指为什么戴在右手上？

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洪沙, 德国人的结婚戒指为什么戴在右手上？ 德国之声, Nov 26, 2016.
www.dw.com/zh/德国人的结婚戒指为什么戴在右手上/a-36505871

Note:
(a) "多数国家的已婚者结婚戒指都是戴在左手无名指上，而只有德语区国家（德国、奥地利、瑞士）以及东欧少量国家（波兰、保加利亚、俄罗斯等）的已婚者婚戒戴在右手。"
(i) engagement ring
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engagement_ring#Legal_ownership
(In Western countries, engagement rings are worn mostly by women [but not men])
(ii) wedding ring
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_ring

section 1.2 The double-ring ceremony: "The double-ring ceremony, or use of wedding rings for both partners [until gay marriage is legal, it meant husband and wife; double-ring refers to both both the groom and the bride get a ring, unlike engagement ring which only a woman receives; In US a married may wear both engagement ring and a wedding band at the same time, but a married man has no engagement ring in the first place], is a 20th-century American innovation * * * Outside the US, it is still common to find single-ring weddings with just the bride wearing the wedding ring. * * * In Germany and Austria, both parties use engagement rings worn on the left hand. At the nuptials, a wedding ring is put on the right hand, as in several east European countries, like Russia, Bulgaria, and Poland. This can be a new ring for the bride, or both, or reusing the engagement rings. Any engagement rings can then remain on the left hand or be moved to the right hand.

(iii) The complete list of nations where wedding band is worn on ring finger of the right hand. (I am clueless about "Harees finger." I google the word (harees) and the term, and ONLY this Wiki page shows up.

ring finger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_finger

section 2.1 Harees finger: "In some Catholic and some Orthodox countries[5] such as Austria, Bulgaria, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India (mostly for men), Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands [if not Catholic], Norway, Perú, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Ukraine, and Venezuela the wedding ring is worn on the ring finger of the right hand.

(b) "有历史学者研究发现早在古埃及时期人们就已经有了戴婚戒的习俗。据说当时婚戒都只是戴在左手无名指上，因为当时人们相信，有一条 '爱情血管' 将心脏和左手无名指直接相连。这样就能让人类的感情中心 '心脏' 与象徵着爱情的婚戒距离最近。后来基督徒们承袭了这一传统，并从13世纪开始，交换婚戒成为教堂婚礼中的一个固定节目。"

Every word in this quotation is bull _ _ _ _. First of all, 爱情血管 was first rendered (written, that is) in Latin, not Egyptian. But anyone can write Latin not just Romans (just like you and and I are speaking and writing English, though we are not Bruitish). See vena amoris
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vena_amoris

Quote:

"The earliest known occurrence of the phrase vena amoris was from Henry Swinburne, an English ecclesiastical lawyer whose work covering marriage, the puritanical 'A Treatise of Espousal or Matrimonial Contracts,' was published posthumously in 1686. He cites unidentified ancient sources and purports an Egyptian connection; but no earlier mention of the vein can be found.

"The choice of finger is also less than settled until recent times; during the 17th century in England it was not unusual to wear the wedding ring on the thumb.[1] Gauls and Britons wore their rings on the middle finger,[2] and the choice of right or left hand appears relatively dependent on culture; though cultures that use either the right or left ring finger both claim a historical connection to the vena amoris. The use of wedding and betrothal rings was not commonplace in the Roman Empire until the 2nd century; which also contradicts versions of the story which claim that this tradition was brought to Rome in the 3rd century BC.
(i) I am a biologist by training, and call tell you that ancient people in the whole world had no idea about vessels (Chinese theorized vessels for qi 气, for which there is no anatomic basis), which was first substantiated by William Harvey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Harvey
(In 1628 he published in Frankfurt his completed treatise on the circulation of the blood, the De Motu Cordis [Latin, whose English translation is "on the Motion of the Heart"] )
(ii) "Gauls and Britons wore their rings on the middle finger"
(A) In modern times, British people are called Britons. See British people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_people
("British people, or Britons, are the citizens of the United Kingdom * * * When used in a historical context, 'British' or 'Britons' can refer to the ancient Britons [qv]")
(B) Click 'ancient Britons' leads to
Celtic Britons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Britons
(The term is usually used for people in the Iron Age (from approximately 600 BC) ['who spoke the Celtic Common Brittonic language'] )

Quote: "The coming of the Anglo-Saxons [from present-day Germany] and Gaelic Celts from the 5th century AD onwards, and the resulting gradual spread of the collection of dialects that would become the English language and Scots Gaelic, between them eventually extinguished Brittonic from much of its former territory by the 12th century AD, leaving Brittonic speakers only in Wales, Cornwall and Brittany.