The representative figures of Xuetang Lege are Shen Xingong and Li Shutong.

Shen Xingong, the father of school music and songs, his representative works: "Bamboo Horse" and "Gymnastics - Military Exercise" (the earliest school music and songs in China). Characteristics of the music: rich themes and easy to understand.

Li Shutong, Master Hongyi, founded China's earliest drama group "Chunliu Society" and founded my country's first music publication "Music Magazine" in 1906. His music works are of high artistic quality.

The background of the creation of school music and songs

At the end of the 19th century, under the influence of the reform trend, the trend of "establishing new schools, introducing advanced Western education systems, and developing modern scientific education" began to rise. In 1904, the Qing government promulgated the "Regulations of the School", and in 1905, the imperial examination was abolished. New schools were established one after another, and this was the beginning of modern education in China. As a method of aesthetic education, music occupied an important position in the minds of advanced figures of that era.

Chinese intellectuals began to realize that if they did not want to be bullied, they could only "learn from the foreigners to control the foreigners." Only by studying modern Western science can we understand the gap between us, and only in this way can we catch up and narrow the gap.