About 10 years ago, optical pulling force (i.e. optical tractor beam) emerged [10–12] as an attractive and popular concept, not only because the counterintuitive feature but also the profound mechanism underneath and promising applications. In the recent several years, a variety of optical pulling schemes have been proposed mainly based on the physics of momentum transfer and energy transfer. On the one hand, as for the momentum transfer path, Bessel beams were proposed to pull elongated objects [13] and core–shell structures [14,15]. Fernandes et. al. reported an optical pulling using chiral light [16]. Enhancement of optical pulling force was reported using optically bound structures [17]. Optical pulling in a periodic photonic crystal background was reported, which was originated from the self-induced backaction of the object to the self-collimation mode [18]. Long-range optical pulling of nanoparticle based on Bessel beam was achieve by simultaneously using several novel and compatible mechanisms [19]. Optical pulling mechanism via engineering the topology of light momentum in the background was also reported [20]. Besides, optical pulling can be also realized using the fluidic drag force and metamaterials (the so called “meta-tweezers”) that have provided numerous opportunities in compact multifunctional optical manipulations, such as trapping, transporting, sorting and imaging [21,22]. On the other hand, optical pulling based on photon energy transfer also appear with the assistance of surrounding medium including gas and liquid, in which the photophoresis induced optical pulling is a significant scheme. Photophoretic force discovered by Ehrenhaft has been widely used in optical manipulation [4,23,24]. When an absorptive object is irradiated by inhomogeneous light, asymmetrical temperature distribution is created, and then hot side will give a larger recoiling force than the cold side originated from the thermal motion of medium molecules. In rough comparison, the Photophoretic force imparted by the gas molecules is c/3υ times greater than the radiation pressure originated from the photon momentum transfer, where c is the speed of light and υ is the gas molecular velocity [25]. Shvedov et. al. achieved long-range polarization-controlled laser pulling of gold-coated hollow glass spheres [26]. Zhang et. al. demonstrated a new principle of the laser-induced hammer-hit vibration of a micron-sized black sphere in liquid glycerol [27]. Lu et. al. reported light-induced pulling and pushing of micro gold plate by the synergic effect of optical force and photophoretic force [28]. Up to now, based on the physics of momentum transfer and energy transfer, various optical pulling of small objects at the micro-nano scale have been demonstrated. However, optical pulling of a macroscopic object is challenging and is rarely reported.