Meet the Chinese farmer who spends ten years building his own seven-storey house out of stones, wood and earth

A mentally ill farmer in China has built, by hand, a seven-story structure whose gait has been compared to the famous building in the Japanese anime “Howl’s Moving Castle.”

The man, Hu Guangzhou, insists that the building is for his brothers to move into when they come back—but they’ve been dead ten years, according to Qilu Evening News.

Local officials have remonstrated with Hu for years, but haven’t had the heart to tear it down, lest he “take extreme measures.”

Hu, 55, is a farmer in Linqu County, Shandong, an eastern province in China. He is childless and is described in Chinese media reports as having “a biased personality.”

Two of Hu’s brothers passed away over a decade ago, but he insists that they’re still alive, and will come back one day to live with him in the house he’s building. Village officials have attempted to explain that they’re dead, but he refuses to believe it—he also refuses to move into a nursing home.

The picture of the house he built

source: weibo