What is the name of Hebei Province

,Ji, the abbreviation of Hebei Province, contains and sends good wishes. As mentioned earlier, the abbreviation "Ji" is derived from the ancient Jizhou. So, what does "Ji" mean? Yao, the legendary emperor of ancient China, was born in Shunping County, Hebei Province, and later established his capital at Pingyang (Linfen City, Shanxi Province, which is also the land of ancient Jizhou). He had been active in the middle and south of present-day Hebei Province, and there are records of Emperor Yao's activities in the local histories of Shunping County, Dingzhou City, Tang County, Wangdu County, and Longyao County. During the Eastern Han Dynasty (25 to 220 AD), there was a book called "Shiyi nian" (Interpretation of Names), which explains the origin of the place name "Jizhou": Jizhou is located in the north, where emperors lived, and there were both danger and ease in the place, and the chaos hoped to be governed, the poor and weak hoped to be rich and strong, and the desolate and poor hoped to have a good harvest. "Ji" is a word with many meanings in Chinese, one of which is "hope". In the written Chinese language, there are words like "希冀", "冀望" and "期冀". The Interpretation of Names explains the meaning of the name Jizhou, which is used in the sense of "hope". In this way, Jizhou, is the state of hope, then, now referred to as "Ji" of Hebei Province is the place of hope.