This article analyzes the historical and ethnographic foundations of traditional family values and religious customs formed in the Surkhandarya Oasis, as well as the processes of their contemporary transformation. It highlights the role of Uzbek family values, oral folk traditions, national customs, and the teachings of Islam in the system of family upbringing. Furthermore, the study provides a scientific analysis of the changes observed in family values and religious customs in the Surkhandarya Oasis under the influence of globalization, urbanization, labor migration, and the development of information and communication technologies. The findings indicate that family values continue to preserve their spiritual and moral significance under contemporary conditions and remain an important factor in educating the younger generation in the spirit of national and universal human values.

The changes in the spiritual image of young people are clearly manifested in the multifaceted activities aimed at ensuring the stability of the political situation within the country, maintaining national and interethnic harmony, protecting human rights and freedoms, building a new society, relying on the achievements of the globalization process, solving national problems that were neglected in the recent past, in particular, in restoring the national language, cultural and spiritual heritage, and historical memory.

The article talks about the shrines of the Zarkhana village located in the remote mountainous area of the Surkhan oasis in the Sariasia district, and the beliefs related to them.

The Uzbek people, in addition to the universal ideas of sophistication characteristic of other peoples, have spiritual and ideological conditions unique to this people that form the aesthetic culture of the individual and society. In fact, the Uzbek family, according to its traditions and history, raises its youth in the spirit of growing up, enjoying national sophistication and wisdom. The moral and aesthetic culture of older family members is especially important in the education of young people, that is, taste, spirituality, women's school of manners, love of literature and art, decency and the desire for sincerity.

The article talks about the functional tasks of the Azbarayillah ceremony, which is related to the religious views of the inhabitants of the villages of Sariosia, one of the northern districts of the Surkhan oasis.