Ancient Intangible Cultural Heritage Assets and Inventive Materials for Making Paper-Cutting Arts at Zhangpu’s Communities, Fujian Province of the PRC

Quantitative data survey research describes the two sample groups: 50 young and 50 elderly people's perceptions of their ancient intangible cultural heritage assets, and local plant-tyle raw materials for inventive cultural papermaking heritage art platform designs.The ancient heritage assets' perceptions using the 60-item Questionnaire on Intangible Cultural Heritage Asset Inventory (QICHAI) in 12 ancient assets.The local plant-type raw materials using the 30-item Questionnaire on Cultural Paper-making Material Heritage Inventory (QPMHI) in six raw materials.The two groups' attitudes were assessed with the 10-item Archaeological Ancient Heritage Asset Attitude (AAHAA) and the 10-item Paper-Cutting Art Heritage Attitude (PCAHA).Most of the four research instruments' responses in the five options indicated valid and reliable.Statistically significant differences were found between the two groups' perceptions of ten of twelve ancient assets for the QICHAI, and all local plant-type raw materials were differentiated significantly into two groups for the QPMHI, and showed significant differences for the AAHAA and PCAHA attitudes.Most of the research tools determine the elderly people's responses to their ancient heritage assets, and the raw materials are greater than the young people's response outcomes.Associations with the attitudes, the coefficient determinant predictive (R2) values indicate that 53% and 60% of the variance in their attitudes to their twelve ancient intangible cultural heritage assets, and associate that 57% and 65% of the variance in their attitudes to their six-local plant-type material for inventive cultural papermaking art heritages were attributable to their perceptions for the young and elderly people's responses, respectively.