Memory constitutes an existing way of man. To the root-seeking writers, “seeking” first means memory. As a collective naming urgently needed by the ideology inference, root-seeking writers amplified the personal memory of the educated youth to the collective memory of the times and nation. However, personal memory is placed at the center of the history and has been rewritten to tell the history of the nation. Hence, the national collective memory has been put on a cultural coat of the root-seeking literature. Through recalling the local customs, ancient ritual and feudal old fogy, the root-seeking writers attempt to clean out an open land to rebuild the spirit of modern China totem on the ruins of the national collective memory.