Editing Hebei (section)

==Etymology==
"Hebei" means 'north of the river', derived from the province's location north of the [[Yellow River]] in the [[North China Plain]].<ref>{{cite web |title=我国各省份名称的由来 |url=https://new.qq.com/rain/a/20181208A0M4OV |website=腾讯网 |access-date=2021-01-10}}</ref><ref>[http://www.people.com.cn/GB/shenghuo/1090/2435218.html Origin of the Names of China's Provinces] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427100058/http://www.people.com.cn/GB/shenghuo/1090/2435218.html |date=2016-04-27 }}, People's Daily Online.</ref><ref>{{in lang|zh}} [http://www.people.com.cn/GB/shenghuo/1090/2435218.html Origin of the Names of China's Provinces] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427100058/http://www.people.com.cn/GB/shenghuo/1090/2435218.html |date=2016-04-27 }}, [[People's Daily Online]].</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Yellow bridge Chinese Dictionary |url=http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/dictionary.php |access-date=15 April 2016 |website=Yellow Bridge}}</ref> In the ''[[Yu Gong]]'', the province is recorded as "[[Jizhou (ancient China)|Jizhou]]", lending to its traditional abbreviation of "Ji" ({{zhi|s=冀}}).

The province's nickname is "Yanzhao" ({{zhi|s=燕赵}}), which is the collective name of the [[Yan (state)|Yan]] and [[Zhao (state)|Zhao]] states that controlled the region during the [[Spring and Autumn period|Spring and Autumn]] and [[Warring States period]]s (771–221&nbsp;BC).<ref>{{cite web |title=河北省古称"燕赵之地"，为什么现在的简称却是"冀"呢? |url=https://www.sohu.com/a/294749251_353840|website=[[Sohu]]|access-date=2021-01-10}}</ref> In 1421, the [[Yongle Emperor]] of the [[Ming dynasty]] (1368–1644) moved the capital from [[Nanjing]] to [[Beijing]], and the province surrounding the new capital was first called [[North Zhili]] or [[Zhili]], meaning 'directly ruled'.<ref name=EB1911>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Chih-Li |volume=6 |page=133}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Yongle Emperor |url=https://www.worldhistory.org/Yongle_Emperor|website=[[World History Encyclopedia]]|access-date=2021-01-10}}</ref> When Nanjing became the capital of the [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]] in 1928, the province of Zhili was abolished and given its present name of Hebei.<ref>{{cite web |title=直隶省的称呼延续了几百年，1928年，为何被改成了河北省？|url=https://www.360kuai.com/pc/9b7b4962109a9be44?cota=3&kuai_so=1&sign=360_7bc3b157|website=快资讯 |access-date=2021-01-10}}</ref>