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第一篇：
Why do we go crazy on New Year's Eve? Why the exotic costumes, the masked balls, the noisemakers, the excessive drinking, the general air of orgiastic frenzy that makes the last day of the year so distinctive? The great historian of religion Mircea Eliade claimed that the New Year's celebrations of many primitive peoples were an attempt to begin history anew out of the chaos of the primordial "time before time." The activities with which we moderns welcome the New Year are remarkably similar to activities that traditional peoples used to reconstruct order out of that chaos. They wore masks to represent the spirits of the dead, who would have to incorporated into the reborn year. They beat drums and shouted and raised a general hue and cry as a way of scaring off demons. They indulged themselves in alcoholic and sexual excess as a way of evoking th chaos that would soon be banished. They took the fights that often grew out of this indulgence as ceremonial