Is ancient China perilous?

I don't know much about the real ancient history of many countries aside from what I read in books and in some videos, I know just a bit of China's history like some dynasties, eras and famous characters like the Han dynasty, the era of the three kingdoms and Genghis Khan, etc...
Do I want to live in ancient China? no I don't think I want to unless I am an emperor  or a great immortal  

Does the box judge? Does it only hates? 

You realize that EVERYTHING you posted simply proves my point that their government takes a dim view on mismanagement? 

Not really much familiar about the dynasties. Was actually hoping for nuffians to enlightenment me. 

Just like the frog in the well,
@Bad Storm is replicating it as the cat in the box~
 

Yeah and I'm sure the "officials" are so well connected with heaven that they can call a drought or flood on demand. Stop trying to perpetuate webnovel stereotypes, they don't reflect reality any more than Rambo or Superman does. Agrarian life is very much at the mercy of the elements, "officials" or otherwise. Go check up famines in China, you'll see one very, very common word. "Drought". Often followed by the word "Rebellion". It was FOOD that caused people to rebel, not being squeezed of money. 2 totally different objects. Interrelated maybe but different. 

Compare to now, yes.
Compared to other countries nearby at the time, no roughly same danger. 

if your the type that walks on side walks and look at your phone. . .  .
then I'm sure you'll die or be brought to harm instantly. . 

Which period of ancient China? There are thousands of years, dozens of kingdoms, numerous dynasties and stuff. With huge differences between them. 

Can't wait to eat tasty food in that era


 

I watched Curse of the Golden Flower before, safe to say you don't want to be a peasant in that age of civilization.  

And did you EVER go and check your beliefs YOU dumb cunt? Go check up Famine in China. You'll see that it is DROUGHT, especially from the cyclic fluctuations over the Pacific Ocean that caused famine, not "government officials". The "officials" part was added in later by the Communist government to "prove" how their government works better than "Monarchy" after their rebellion and it's part of their government propaganda to legitimise their government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine#Far_East
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Niño–Southern_Oscillation

Go check all the 4 famine links referred to in the article. Drought, drought, drought. There was NOTHING for the "officials" to tax, as you yourself pointed out, they work on an "income tax" system, when the "income" i.e the crops is 0, there is NOTHING to tax. Unless you want to tax tree bark and human meat.

The main reason why Chinese authors write such template stories about "officials" is simply because of two reasons. 1- They were brought up in a time when their government was actively propagating such a view and 2- The Communist officials really DID behave like that. This carried over into their template writing since that was the behaviour they saw all "officials" behave as without the understanding that "Communist" officials and "Qing" and "Song" officials are not alike.