1940年夏至1941年夏,按西南联合大学规定的教师“轮休”制度,在此校任教的朱自清可以带薪离校休假一年。1940年上学期,一放暑假,朱自清就离开了学校临时校址所在地的云南昆明,于这年的8月4日到达在四川成都租得的夫人及孩子已搬至此处的家——成都市东门外宋公桥报恩寺内的旁院三间没有地板的小瓦房。这座小尼庵内的那三间小瓦房被叶圣陶称 From the summer of 1940 to the summer of 1941, according to the “shift holiday” system stipulated by the Southwestern United University, Zhu Ziqing, who taught at this school, could take leave of absence from school for one year with paid leave. In the first semester of 1940, after a summer vacation, Zhu Ziqing left Kunming, Yunnan, where the school’s temporary school site was located. On August 4 of this year, he arrived in Chengdu, the capital of Chengdu, where his wife and children had rented their home - Chengdu Song Gongqiao outside the East Gate Temple inside the yard of three small tiles without the floor. The three small tiles inside this small nunnery are called by Ye Shengtao