The popular mainland Chinese boy band TFBOYS member, Jackson Yee, has recently announced plans to hold a solo concert with the theme of “Que Xue” after starring in movies such as “Better Days”. The news instantly brought the rare Chinese characters “Que Xue” to the top of hot searches, prompting fans to scramble for tickets while trying to figure out the pronunciation, joking that a concert theme that is difficult to pronounce is the most fierce.
Recently, some netizens on the mainland discovered through the “Cultural and Tourism Market News” that Jackson Yee’s 2025 Guangzhou concert will be held on July 19, with the theme “Que Xue (pronounced quèxué)”. With this news, many netizens have been asking: How do you pronounce Que Xue? Related search terms have been trending on the hot search list.
In fact, Jackson Yee’s last solo concert was the “Jackson Yee 2019 Yee Concert” held in 2019. “Yee” originally referred to flawed jade and also to the worker who carves jade. In internet slang, “Yee” means one’s unique self. Fans pointed out that the use of the characters “Que Xue” in Jackson Yee’s concert implies the imagery of strong winds, raging waters, and towering rocks, echoing his newly released album “Wedge Stone” and reflecting his continuous self-improvement and challenging growth in performance and music.
Some netizens have questioned whether choosing rare characters is a form of “cultural gimmick”. Others believe that Jackson Yee has a large fan base, mostly young people, who voluntarily research and spread various explanations, leading to more people understanding the meaning and cultural connotations of “Que Xue” beyond traditional teachings.
Jackson Yee, 24 years old, joined the TFBOYS at the age of 12 in August 2013. In 2020, he won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best New Performer and the Hundred Flowers Award for Best New Actor for his role as “Liu Beishan” in the movie “Better Days”, and was nominated for Best Actor in both of these film awards. That same year, he was also nominated for Best Actor at the 34th Golden Rooster Awards for his performance in the movie “A Little Red Flower”.
Of particular note is Jackson Yee’s recent rise as one of China’s “billion-dollar box office male stars” with films like “Better Days” and the anti-American historical distortion movies “Changjin Lake” and “Changjin Lake: Bridge of No Return”, earning him the top spot in the 2020 and 2021 “Forbes China Celebrity List”.
According to the mainland media “Sanxiang City News”, as of May 9 this year, Jackson Yee’s total box office from starring in movies reached 19.727 billion yuan, ranking seventh on the list of Chinese male actors in live-action films, and making him the highest-ranking post-2000 born actor on the list.