Disclosed are a communication method based on a time division multiple access communication system, and a terminal. The method comprises: receiving, by a communication terminal, an embedded signalling frame, conducting embedded type information parsing on the embedded signalling frame to obtain an embedded signalling and control information; in accordance with the control information, caching, by the communication terminal, the embedded signalling to corresponding caching regions; and when each corresponding caching region has already been cached with the embedded signalling, conducting embedded type signalling decoding, by the communication terminal, on the embedded signalling in all the caching regions so as to obtain a control signalling. The technical solution of the present invention can shorten the terminal access duration of the time division multiple access communication system, thereby improving the access performance of the time division multiple access communication system.