In this article, we distinguish the charge conjugations of the interpolating currents, calculate the contributions of the vacuum condensates up to dimension-10 in the operator product expansion, and we study the masses and pole residues of the J PC = 1 −± hidden charmed tetraquark states with the QCD sum rules. We suggest a formulawith the effective mass M c = 1.8 GeV to estimate the energy scales of the QCD spectral densities of the hidden charmed tetraquark states, which works very well. The numerical results disfavor assigning the Z c (4020), Z c (4025), and Y (4360) as the diquark-antidiquark (with the Dirac-spinor structure C − Cγ μ ) type vector tetraquark states, and they favor assigning the Z c (4020), Z c (4025) as the diquark-antidiquark type 1 +− tetraquark states. While the masses of the tetraquark states with symbolic quark structures ccss and cc(uū + dd)/ √ 2 favor assigning the Y (4660) as the 1 −− diquark-antidiquark type tetraquark state, more experimental data are still needed to distinguish its quark constituents. There are no candidates for the positive charge conjugation vector tetraquark states; the predictions can be confronted with the experimental data in the future at the BESIII, LHCb and Belle-II.