Animateurs are indeed shifting subjects, resisting classification or belonging. Being an animateur is frequently a temporary status, a transitional experience that may or may not lead to acquiring financial or cultural capital. Often equipped with technical skills, animateurs are frequently students or self-taught animators, who may or may not be on their way to becoming professionals.

[T]his rainbow look'd like hope— / Quite a celestial kaleidoscope.

As for the rice trade in Hupeh, it is noteworthy that in the early nineteenth century, rice from Chu-shan and Chu-hsi-two districts in hilly north-western Hupeh-was even demanded by Hsün-yang and Pai-ho in southern Shensi (28).

The coloring indicates it’s a female. The males are smaller and mostly black. And you might not have been able to tell, but the sphecid wasps have a very narrow, threadlike waist.