VPN: yes.

Tor: i dont know because my vpn just block the tor and its hard to connect with tor in China.

Direct: no.

Tor doesn't work in China without bridges because the Great Firewall blocks tor entry/exit nodes; bridges also are first to go down when tor is disrupted from attacks.

in China tor is like extra unreliable, it's fine to browse webpages sporatically but definitely no one is running a reliable hidden service in China