I stumbled upon this website from a friend, and I liked the ancient Chinese philosophy of finger meanings.
Leon Mege - The Art of Platnium
•The thumb represents your parents
•The index finger represents your siblings
•The middle finger represents yourself
•The ring finger represents your life partner
•The little finger represents children
If you close your hands, with all your fingers tip-to-tip except the middle fingers, which you bend inside you will be able to:
•Open your thumbs: your parents are not destined to live with you forever.
•Open your index fingers: your siblings are going to leave you to have their own life and family.
•Open your little fingers: your children will also settle someday with a family of their own.
•Finally, try to separate your ring finger. You can't do it, since as a husband and wife; you are destined to be together forever
Unfortunatly there is however, a less romantic and more anatomic explanation for this:
All of the other fingers have two extensor tendons, while the ring finger has just one. All four fingers have the extensor digitorum communis that straightens the fingers. The small finger has the extensor digitorum minimis and the index has the extensor indicis proprius. The ring finger does not have a secondary tendon
