稻草 (rice straw) + 人 (person) = a person made of rice straw. The literal meaning perfectly describes the object.
culture
叶圣陶 (Yè Shèngtáo) wrote a famous children's story called 《稻草人》(The Scarecrow, 1922), one of China's first modern fairy tales. The scarecrow in the story watches helplessly as people suffer.
