Abstract: Faced with the serious situation of internal and external troubles, the Qing government began to carry out reform measures, successively send large numbers of Chinese students to study in Japan, abolished the imperial examination system, established new-style schools and offered music and songs courses, which effectively stimulated the emergence of modern school music movement. Themes of school songs were various and rich, which has the basic rudiments of Chinese new poetry and can be regarded as an important link in the modern transformation of Chinese poetry.