1949年12月8日凌晨2时左右,在桃源发生了震惊湖南的八区事件:桃源县八区人民政府和八区派到崇义乡的工作组,同时遭到400余名土匪的突然袭击,县委宣传部长、区委书记、区长等16位同志壮烈牺牲,4位同志身负重伤,4位同志不幸被土匪绑走,区政府的54支长短枪和所有弹药物资被匪徒洗? At about 2 a.m. on December 8, 1949, there were eight districts in Taoyuan that shocked Hunan: eight people’s governments in Taoyuan County and eight working groups dispatched to Chongyi Township, and were simultaneously attacked by over 400 bandits Sixteen comrades, including Propaganda Ministers, District Party Committee Secretaries and District Magistrates, died in the fierce sacrifice. Four comrades were severely wounded. Four comrades were unjustly bandit bandaged. The district government’s 54 guns and all ammunition were banditly washed.