In the first half of the 20th century, Xiao devoted himself to music education activities, which was a period of rapid social changes and various ideological trends in modern China. Although the starting points and implementation steps of various ideological trends and theories are different, there are still contradictions and conflicts among them, but the fundamental goal of "resisting foreign aggression and rejuvenating China" is basically the same. Xiao is not a visionary thinker, but more like a persistent doer. The reason why he chose music education as the main content of his activities is not blind, but based on his in-depth understanding and rational thinking of eastern and western music. He believes that it is precisely because China did not advocate and develop the social popularization of music education like the modern western world that China's music lags behind the west, not because the people of China lack talents in this field.

He believes that the establishment of modern music education can promote the progress of China's music culture, improve the artistic quality of the people, change the mental state of the people, and finally achieve the goal of changing the backward appearance of the country. In this process, Xiao Youmei fully embodies his "practice-oriented" personality and persistent spirit of not giving up until he reaches his goal. Despite repeated setbacks, he "persevered to the end until his last breath ..." However, it can only be a beautiful fantasy and vision to realize the ultimate goal in Xiao Youmei's mind by setting up music education or cultivating a few music talents.

On the other hand, under the situation that the feudal education system with "loyalty to the monarch and respect for Confucius" as the core has been following for thousands of years and obviously contradicts the trend of the times, actively advocating modern new education with "military national education, utilitarian education, civic moral education, world outlook education and aesthetic education" as the core is indeed an effective means to break the feudal bondage, promote ideological emancipation and cultivate talents needed for building a modern country. Xiao Yisheng advocated and engaged in music education. Although he failed to fundamentally change the backward appearance of China's modern music culture and trained a limited number of new music talents, their efforts strongly impacted many drawbacks of traditional music education, promoted the spread of western music in China and the integration of Chinese and Western music cultures, initially changed the bad situation of modern music education, laid the foundation for the great development of China music in the 20th century, and made preliminary talent preparation.