大家都知道手的大拇指与中指之间的手指叫食指,这和拇指、小指、中指的命名似乎有些区别,与食指的大小、位置也无关,却从字面上看来与食物有关,这是为什么呢?其实,食指最早还真的和吃有关。古人习惯用这个指头试探汤水、食物的冷热,然后放到嘴里吮一下——古人这样做并不奇怪,因为上古时代的食物大多是用手直接抓起来吃的。因此,古人将这个手指称作食指。之所以选择食指做这个工作,也许是因为相对于其他手指来说,食指较为灵活、常用,尝 Everyone knows that the finger between the thumb and middle finger of a hand is called the index finger. This seems to be somewhat different from that of the thumb, little finger and middle finger. It also has nothing to do with the size and position of the index finger, but literally it is related to food. Why? In fact, the earliest really eat and eat. The ancients accustomed to using this finger to test the soup, hot and cold food, and then put it in your mouth sucking - it is not surprising that the ancients did so, because most ancient food was grabbed directly by hand. Therefore, the ancients called this finger the index finger. The reason why the index finger to choose to do this work, perhaps because relative to other fingers, the index finger is more flexible, commonly used, taste