The “over-generalization” of benshi本事 （the historical or anecdotal background of classical poetry） refers to the problematic practice of expanding a poem’s anecdotal context to artificially link it with unrelated works. Stories of Wei Zhuang’s韦庄 robbed lover and Bai Juyi’s白居易 first love can be taken as two typical cases. This over-generalization shares the same fictitious nature as literary fabrication and leads to an inversion of the relationship between poem and context—reducing the primary poetic text to a mere instrument for verifying the authenticity of the anecdote. Although benshi texts are narrative in form， they carry critical significance： their core lies in an “autobiographical” hermeneutic approach that seeks to correlate literary works with the writer’s life experience. However， when this autobiographical reading exceeds its valid boundaries and forcibly ties unrelated poems to historical anecdotes， it inevitably falls into a interpretive fallacy. Therefore， classical poetry scholarship must adhere strictly to the principle of basing arguments solely on verifiable evidence and dismissing unsubstantiated claims.