《白鹿原》是由现实文化层面和历史文化层面、党性文化层面和人性文化层面、理性文化层面和非理性文化层面构筑起来的，具有多层文化结构的小说；每一文化层面自有其特殊的文化意味，而不同文化层面相互交错衍射，更使这部小说弥漫出令人目不暇接的多重文化意味，从中流露出以儒家传统文化来批判现实文化的倾向、以儒家仁学的人道精神来否定党性文化中的阶级斗争的倾向和以民俗神话传说等非理性文化形式来喻示儒家理性文化内涵的倾向 “White Deer Plain” is a novel with multi-layered cultural structure which is constructed from realistic cultural level, historical and cultural level, party cultural level, human cultural level, rational cultural level and irrational cultural level. Each cultural level has its own unique Cultural meanings, and different cultural aspects are interlaced and diffused. In addition, this novel is filled with a dizzying multiplicity of cultural meanings, revealing the tendency of using Confucian traditional culture to criticize realistic cultures and denying party spirit with the humanitarian spirit of Confucian benevolence The Tendency of Class Struggle in Culture and the Tendency of Confucian Rationality and Culture Connotation with Irrational Cultural Forms such as Folk Myths and Legends