The invention provides a light aromatic hydrocarbon hydrogenation pre-hydrogenation process, wherein the process includes the following steps: a deweighted product oil after deweighting comes from a tank area, is pressurized to 2.1 MPa by a hydrogenation feed pump and is mixed with a pre-hydrogenation reaction circulating liquid and new hydrogen, then the mixture enters an inlet distributor of thebottom of a pre-hydrogenation reactor, and then passes through a catalyst bed layer from bottom to top; selective hydrogenation reaction of diene, styrene and a small amount of monoolefins is preformed; a liquid phase circulating material extracted from the side face of the pre-hydrogenation reactor is pressurized by a pre-hydrogenation circulating pump, is cooled by a pre-hydrogenation circulating cooler, is mixed with new hydrogen and raw materials, enters an inlet of the pre-hydrogenation reactor again, is circulated, is discharged from the top of the pre-hydrogenation reactor and is subjected to main hydrogenation reaction. Through the process, the olefin content of the pre-hydrogenated oil product of the process is obviously reduced, the bromine number is also obviously reduced, coking of the main hydrogenation reaction is effectively prevented, the main hydrogenation reaction with high catalytic activity is completed, and the operation cycle of the device is long.