Is the cantonese expression 五福臨門 present in Mandarin too? A recent question prompted me to look for expressions related to the Chinese New Year and, among them, I found one that particularly stroke me as interesting:

五福臨門  = according to the poster it means: &quot;five happinesses bestowed on your household&quot;
Source: Chinese New Year phrases, third post by &quot;14k Guy&quot;, 7th expression listed.

I suppose that the pronunciation provided is Cantonese, since the site seems to be related to Cantonese.
Anyway, looking up the expression as a whole doesn't give any results in Mandarin, apparently, whereas looking up each character alone, the meaning seems to match... So I wonder, does this expression exist in current Mandarin as well? If not, is there an equivalent?
In both cases, I'd like to know why &quot;five happenesses&quot;, is it related to the number meanings in Chinese culture?
Of course it exists in Mandarin. I didn't know it is a Cantonese expression. Maybe it should be just "Chinese expression".

I cannot answer whether the meaning are the same. I don't know Cantonese. But I think the meaning should be the same in Cantonese and Mandarin.

"五福" comes form 《尚书·洪范》:


  五福：一曰寿，二曰富，三曰康宁，四曰攸(yōu)好(hào)德，五曰考终命。


which are long life, being rich, being healthy, clement, having a peaceful end (death). It may or may not be related to the number meaning of five, I don't know. Maybe the original author picked five because five is a good number.

And currently, most Chinese cannot list what "五福" are, though "五福临门" is commonly used.