The main concern of this paper is not Chen Yingzhen’s旧frontal intellectual, conceptual, literary and cultural discourses in the 1980s, but the socialist practices of the Mao Zedong Era in mainland China--especially the planning and concretization of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution--which not only serve as Chen Yingzhen’s central belief in his intellectual understanding and practical imagination from the 1960s to the 1970s, but also something he enthusiastically idealized. After the Cultural Revolution, how mainland China reflects on the problematic in it as well as the exposition of various injustices and brutality have led Chen Yingzhen to readjust and explore his thoughts and ideas. By approaching the issue from this angle, we are able to sort out and reveal Chen Yingzhen’s旧sophisticate spirit and thinking that are hard to grasp by directly focusing on his concrete intellectual, conceptual, literal and cultural practices in the 1980s. Only by clarifying and grasping Chen Yingzhen’s旧thinking and sensibility in this sense, could we accurately reveal the formations of Chen Yingzhen’s deeper concepts and sensibilities behind his concrete intellectual, conceptual, literary and cultural practices in the 1980s. Reveling the formation of Chen Yingzhen’s concepts and sensibilities in this sense is not only helpful when it comes to a more accurate understanding of the inner side of Chen Yingzhen’s concrete intellectual, conceptual, literary and cultural practices in the 1980s, but, more importantly, the revelation itself bears important intellectual and cognitional value.