Yeh Shih-tao attributes this to the negative effects of growing up in a rural Hakka village, writing that "a lack of exposure to new information and a difficulty in discerning changes in ways of thinking in the outside world caused Chung to remain insulated from the challenges brought on by new literary trends."
葉石濤評論，這是由於生活於客家農村的環境給他帶來負面的傷害，「資訊的缺乏以及很難認知外面思潮的變化，較少接受文學新潮流的衝擊」。