The more technological achievements change todayТs world, the more valuable become the human resources of traditional culture. The mountain relief of Boysun and its location far from the big cities have provided stability and self-sufficiency of the traditional rural life. In autumn and winter the roads going to highland kishlaks become impassable. Agriculture is still based on the irrigation system of aryks fed from mountain rivers and springs. Some areas remain inaccessible to machinery and are cultivated with a plough. Weaving looms, clay ovens, water mills, oil-mixers and smithТs shops play an important role in Boysun everyday life. The ornaments on costumes and craft products go back to the 10-11th centuries. Cattle are considered as the major riches. The skills of horse riding and УkurashФ national wrestling are esteemed as basic men's qualities. The family and home as a part of a traditional neighbourhood (УmahallaФ), village (УkishlakФ) and the surrounding nature makeup the micro- and macro-cosmos of a Boysun human. The lifestyle and the cult of ensure respect for elders that Boysun is a land of long-livers, where the age of hundred years is normal.
         TodayТs Boysun culture has preserved the folklore, people, ritual and craft traditions of sedentary and nomadic Turkic and East-Iranian absorbing organically folk Islam and ancient superstitions. The elements of animism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, ancestor cults, Fire and Sun worship and heathen deities can be traced in folklore, rituals and the motife of applied arts. This variety and richress of BoysunТs culture is due to its location on the strategic crossroad of the Great Silk Road. The originality and primeval energy of folk music, dances, rituals and horse games have stimulated the great interest in Boysun all over Uzbekistan and abroad. In 2001 UNESCO proclaimed the cultural space of Boysun as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, recognition of the universal cultural value of BoysunТs folk culture. The scientific expedition, with the support of UNESCO is studying the Boysun phenomenon, and work is in progress on the establishment of a state ethnofolklore, archaeological and nature reserve in Boysun.