That's a big question, given the length of Chinese history and the complexity of Chinese identity. In general, Confucian morals did not have a high esteem of warriors: the ideal Confucian gentleman would have been able to fight, but his greatness would be judged by loyalty, education and adherence to traditional values. Families dreamed of having sons making it into the government bureaucracy, and common soldiery was never a well paid and high status job. Officers in the army advanced because of cunning, loyalty and courage, not because they were charismatic or good fighters. On the whole, Mongols and Japanese were considered barbarians and their focus on martial feats a feature of underdeveloped cultures.

The situation changes if you look from the perspective of Sinicized ruling minorities. Mongols in the Yuan dynasty, Manchus in the Qing dynasty, and so on. They had strong military traditions, but all of them were originating from the times those people were not Chinese yet. They adopted Confucian values and Chinese language, but still considered themselves elites because they were conquerors, and as such they kept themselves separated from the common population and always trained for war to mark their different identity.

In Stephen Turnbull's The Mongol Invasions of Japan 1274 and 1281 he asserts that the Chinese looked down upon the Japanese as a backward culture. One Chinese emissary wrote "I have lived in Japan for a year. I have observed the people’s customs and found that the Japanese are cruel and bloodthirsty. They do not recognize the bond between father and son or the etiquette pertaining to relations between superiors and inferiors." This was written home after a year of living among the Japanese. Given their disdain for the Japanese, I doubt they would try to emulate them.

In Chinese culture, warriors are looked down upon.

There is a very common Chinese phrase "Hao Han Bu Dang Bing" which means a good man doesn't become a soldier. Which is true because being a soldier in the past (and also in the present) means having to kill other human beings and commit atrocities.

Besides, filial piety is very important in Chinese culture and the most filial thing you can do is to produce children. Soldiers often get killed without having produced any children and that is the most unfilial thing a man can do in ancient China.