Huang Zuyan, a native of Longhuai, Nankang County, Jiangxi Province, took part in the revolution in 1926, and worked in agricultural transportation in 1927. 1929 Join the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants. He used to be the secretary of the CPC New Central Committee (Xinfeng, Nankang and Nanxiong), the political commissar of the guerrilla brigade, the political commissar of the Red 22 Barracks, and the political commissar and secretary of the vertical committee of the 28th column of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army from 65438 to 0930. /kloc-in the spring of 0/933, he was transferred to the post of section chief of documents department of Soviet central government and worked as a secretary beside Mao Zedong. Inspector of the General Political Department of the Red Army. Participated in the counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression" in the Central Soviet Area, transferred to the Central Local Work Department 1934 in June, and took part in the Long March despite illness. 1935 10 After arriving in northern Shaanxi in June, he became the secretary of the Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Union, the deputy secretary of the Central Party Branch and the head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, and was enrolled in the Central Red Army University and the Central Advanced Research Class. 1938 to 1939, as the person in charge of Gao Qian training course of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Changjiang Bureau and Gao Qian training course of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Southeast Bureau. Political commissar of the fourth division of the New Fourth Army. 1940 as the chief of the cadre section of the Southeast Bureau. 1942 used to be secretary and director of the Party Committee of Sunan Party School and director of the Urban Work Committee of the East China Bureau of the Communist Party of China. 1944 was appointed secretary of Ganquan county in Huainan area. 1946 was transferred as deputy political commissar of the Fourth Division of the Second Longitudinal Division of the New Fourth Army. From 65438 to 0948, he was transferred to Shandong and served as deputy director and director of the Political Department of Bohai Military Region. 1950 1 added as a member of the people's government of Shandong Province, and served as deputy director of the political department of Shandong Military Region in March. Grade. 1951March 13 night, he was shot and killed by counter-revolutionaries while attending a forum on cultural work in the military region in Jinan. His body was buried in Hero Mountain Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery.

He has served as director of the General Affairs Department of the Central Government of chinese soviet republic, director of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Southern Anhui Special Committee, secretary of the Southern Jiangsu Third Committee, political commissar of the Special Service Corps of the New Fourth Army, deputy political commissar of the East China Field Army Division, director of the Political Department of Hunan Military Region and deputy political commissar of the Military Region.

1March, 950, he was transferred to the post of Director of Political Department of Shandong Military Region.