Influenced by a good family style, Huang studied hard and achieved excellent results. When he was young, he passed the examination of the Qing government and became a student of Jinhua House. Influenced by fellow villagers in Zhejiang, pioneers of democratic revolution Zhang, Cai Yuanpei, Tao and others, he quickly accepted the idea of democratic reform and entered the Economics Department of Waseda University for official study in 1905. During his stay in Japan, he joined the League led by Sun Yat-sen, and since then Huang has devoted himself to the bourgeois-democratic revolution. After graduating from college, he reported revolutionary activities as a secretary of the Qing government. After the Revolution of 1911, he served as a lecturer and professor in Peking University, Beijing Teachers College and Beijing Women's Teachers College. At Peking University, Huang shared the same interests with the famous educator Ma Xulun, determined to reform the old education and become close friends. During the May 4th Movement, Huang actively supported the patriotic student movement. He was injured by the military police and hospitalized for participating in the student parade.
Huang is strict with his family, but he is warm-hearted and kind to the villagers. He often donates money to help the poor, and many villagers get his support. He supported public welfare undertakings and donated poplar 1000 yuan to run schools in his hometown; He also took the lead in advocating the restoration of Jinhua Caozhai Buddha Temple, which has been sought after by fellow villagers so far. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, Huang assisted Lu in handling the relief work for refugees in Zhejiang, and served as deputy general manager of the refugee factory and director of the Zhejiang Office of the Central Relief Committee. The two of them managed badly, and they paid for the work and solved the problem of food and clothing for many refugees. In the 1990s, Ruan Yicheng, then director of the Civil Affairs Department of Zhejiang Province, wrote an article in Taiwan Province Provincial Newspaper to commemorate Lu and Huang.
In his later years, Huang was saddened and disappointed by the corruption of the Kuomintang. 1945 after the Anti-Japanese War, he began to sort out and revise his textbooks and handouts used in Peking University, ready to leave politics and return to teaching. Upon hearing the news, Taiwan Province Provincial University sent a letter of appointment in the autumn of 1946. However, Huang was hemiplegic due to sudden cerebral hemorrhage, so he could not apply. Two years later, his condition deteriorated and he died.