China:  , A Chinese professor has named 16 fresh insect species after songs by common Mandopop singer Jay Chou.
Mi Xiaoqi, a professor at Tongren University in China’s southwestern Guizhou province, listed the recently discovered spiders in a report published in the scientific book Zoological Research: Diversity and Conservation.
The article, which was published in December, has received over 26 million views on Weibo’s microblogging platform since Wednesday ( January 1 ) thanks to a related hashtag.
Weibo users have since dubbed Mi, 44, the” Ultimate Fan”.
The 3. 5mm much Cyclosa xingqing sp is one of the arachnids. nov. or” Sparkling Sentiment spider”- is named after a strike love song from Chou’s comeback album Jay released in 2000.
People are named after likewise favorite tunes, including Rainbow insect, Dragon Fist tarantula, and Excuse insect.
Taiwan-born Chou, renowned for his extraordinary love songs and music beat, is one of the world’s most popular Mandarin-language painters having sold over 30 million information.
The 45-year-old has been a household name for more than 20 years on the Chinese peninsula and above.
Today that Mi and his colleagues have discovered eight-legged creatures in China’s Yunnan state, his music will be immortalized as the names of those who know them.
The Secret Code insect, a 2.36mm reddish brown web-weaving spider, is named after Chou’s 2002 like music featured on his praised song The Eight Dimensions.
It’s unclear how the tune, in which Chou croons” Don’t possibly keep, you are missing the missing part in my planet”, relates to the spider.
Excuse insect, a soft brown and white bird, shares its name with a record from Chou’s 2004 record Common Jasmine Orange, the best-selling real record in China this millennium according to Guinness World Records.
Mi, who collaborated with other academic Wang Cheng and Li Shuqiang, has been a Jay Chou lover since he was a student, according to Xinhua’s position media outlet.
The government is more interested in medical research when Jay Chou’s songs are followed by naming spiders. He told Xinhua,” I hope more people will support natural protection and pay attention to scientific study.”
This is not the first time Chou’s name has been used for scientific discoveries. An asteroid named after the singer was named in Taiwan in 2011.