Zhong Yao wrote that Zhu Jianping's skill was greater than figures of the past like the Warring States physiognomist Tang Ju and former Han diviner Xu Fu.
[1] Rafe de Crespigny notes a pattern in the recorded predictions of a crisis at midlife that, if overcame, would give them further lease of life.
[2] Zhu Jianping told Cao Pi his lifespan was eighty years but would suffer a small hardship when he was forty and would need to take care.
The evening before his birthday, he invited guests for a drinking party, talking of how when the rooster crowed he would have made it through the hardship Zhu Jianping had warned of.
The poet Ying Qu (應璩), who had close ties to the Cao family,[16] was told by Zhu Jianping that at the age of sixty-two he would be a trusted official, but a year before his death, he would see a white dog that nobody else would see.
Chen Shou lists Zhu Jianping among Hua Tuo, Du Kui, Guan Lu and Zhou Xuan as expert technicians, with skills of their chosen art that were out of the ordinary with a specialty in the mysterious and profound.